This would be much easier to sell if everyone stopped referring to it in the context of “healthcare” and instead used “universal health insurance” or “universal health insurance rates”.

The number of politicians that conflate healthcare and health insurance (notwithstanding the actual convergence of the two through payers’ purchasing provider entities) is mind boggling.

Striking the word “healthcare” from the conversation would make this much more digestible for folks afraid of the “socialism boogeyman”…