I understand this is what you heard, not the position you hold. But I thought there was consensus among economists both left and right (including Marxist) that employer paid health insurance is simply another form of wage. (Workers are better off with it than individual insurance, because employers can negotiate group rates, and additionally insurers are subject to some regulations in employer paid plans that individual plans are not subject to.) So single payer health would be better for workers even if financed 100% via regressive taxes , not only collectively but individually in the majority of cases. That is most currently insured USAians would be better off under a regressively financed single payer plan than under the current system. True?