Delusion: A single-payer system would impose an unacceptable financial burden on U.S. households. Actuality: Single payer is the one health reform that pays for itself. By changing a whole lot of insurers and thousands of various non-public well being plans, every with their own advertising, enrollment, billing, utilization assessment, actuary and other departments, with a single, streamlined, tax-financed nonprofit program, greater than $four hundred billion in well being spending can be freed as much as guarantee protection to all the 30 million people who are at the moment uninsured and to improve the protection of everyone else, including the tens of thousands and thousands who are underinsured Co-pays and deductibles, which have been quickly rising underneath the Reasonably priced Care Act, could be eliminated. Further, the one-payer system’s bargaining clout would rein in rising prices for medication and medical supplies. Lump-sum budgets for hospitals and capital planning would management prices …