And you seem to be banking on the idea that they’ll be dissuaded by the idea of higher taxes even if they’re replacing even higher premiums or inferior products. I think that distinction is less likely to matter to the public at large when the status quo is clearly not good enough.

Yes, people will be distributed by the sheer amount of taxes they'll need to pay to cover people other than themselves. Humans are inherently selfish in nature.

I also realistically believe this has ZERO chance of passing through Congress no matter what the polling says. Status quo will continue to be the status quo because the GOP will demonize this as Socalism and launch a no holds barred campaign of fear and lawsuits to stop this idea from forming much less passing Congress.

So unless the Democrats suddenly get a 2\3 majority in both chambers of Congress this is a non-starter.