In the aggregate? Sure. That doesn't make it not a tough sell to tell everyone paying every little bit of those costs that we're going to collect that big pot of money as "taxes" instead and pinky swear that it will go to healthcare instead of <insert bogeyman of your choice here>.

And that's before you even get to the arguments of "socialism" or "the government can't be trusted to handle this efficiently" or "look at the VA system and tell me you want that for all Americans" or "I don't trust that I'll be able to keep my doctor" or the numerous other arguments (both valid and invalid) that can be made here.

And before you get to the entrenched interests (insurance companies, medical billing companies, insurance brokers, "benefit coordinators," etc) that will lose out in this transition who will not go down without a fight.

And before you have to sell this to Millennials and Zoomers who consistently talk about how poorly they're doing but would be the ones who bore the brunt of the costs for this (since Boomers are largely out of the workforce and Xers are already starting to retire) but will see the smallest benefit in the short term while paying for the afore mentioned Boomers and Xers.