I saw an article on this earlier this morning, and the framing was worded in order to scare people. The right likes to throw out really large numbers, to make it seem as if the things the left wants to do is just so impossible. The commenter here FightThePower did this last week. He linked some silly study that threw out a huge number about entitlements, the number was an estimate of spending over the âinfinite horizonâ (based upon numbers done on spending over the next 75 years). No context at all though, like, over that same time period, how large will the US economy be? With this particular issue, the article I read didnât make a few things clear (intentionally). It didnât make clear that it was the total cost of the system, not expenditures in addition to how much we spend now. The same article didnât once mention how much the present system would cost over the same time period. That isnât logical, and again, the intention is to come up with a huge number, without any context, to scare people. Since the present system would cost more, shouldnât that scare people even more? But, again, the goal isnât to educate others, it is propaganda. Single payer would save trillions (I have to see the methodology of this particular study) over the long term, and I think it is important to note how completely right wing the economics department at George Mason is. It isnât just that they get money from the Kochs, they have for decades been at the center of âpublic choiceâ economics, which the book Democracy in Chains focused a lot on (that school of economics, as well as George Mason). That school of economics is largely right wing, and I am betting that when I start to read the study of theirs, the methodology of theirs will be heavily slanted to give lower savings. However, it is beyond question, single payer would save money, this study even shows that, it would have less overhead and would massively cut down on the huge social costs of this nightmare of a system. On the facts, they lose and they know it, which is why they are going to lie, like they always do, and rely on ideological bullshit.