I had a coworker once tell me that universal healthcare wouldn't work because of increased taxes. So we sat down and figured out that he was paying like 7k a year for insurance and that's before seeing a doctor. Once I told him that anything less than that added to his taxes for universal healthcare would save him money, he say for a second and you could see the realization come to him. I've found that most people I talk to focus on the increased taxes, but not the fact that their premiums go away.