Single-payer health care plan would require massive tax increase

The latest stop on progressives’ magical wish tour for a single-payer health care plan is California, where U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, has been campaigning on behalf of a proposed state-run, single-payer system. This week, state lawmakers in Sacramento got their first look at the price tag for the proposal: $400 billion annually.
At that price, even after accounting for an estimated $200 billion that could be saved by replacing current state-run health programs with the single-pa