People demand taxpayer-financed health care — now! — from the commission trying to get it for them

Health care is expensive. Universal health care — more appropriately called taxpayer-financed health care — isn’t going to change that. It will still be expensive, and government, not doctors and patients or even insurers, will be in charge of what kind of health care is sought and paid for in such a system.

In a taxpayer-financed, government-controlled system, demand will always outstrip supply, and rationing will be required. This is the pattern of “universal” health care in other countries. Not everyone gets the care they want or need from their county’s health care system, and access and quality suffer. Taxpayers do see larger tax bills.