" Raise taxes on corporations, the stupid-wealthy, and obese pensions. There are sooo many people who were government/civil employees getting high 6 figure pensions...."

I do not have any stats, but I'm pretty sure there are a lot of people paying significant amounts of money for health care right now, either thru the ACA or
employer sponsored. If there was national health care, that money, or some large
portion of it, would not need to be spent. There is no free lunch, of course, so a
large portion or all of that money would need to go to pay for single-payer. So it is not like Americans are not already spending a ton of money on healthcare.

The vested interests will fight national health care tooth and nail, no doubt about it.
I do believe the "vested interests" are outnumbered by a lot. Come 2026, from everything I'm reading, there are a significant number of Americans who are going to get severely handcuffed by monthly HC premiums. And the HC plans are high deductible, shyte coverage.

If we stay on the current course, this is going to boil over. People of all
political persuasions are going to be hurting, just trying to keep up with mortgage
like HC premiums. Our crooked politicians are bribed by lobbyists for the "vested interests", but these same crooked pols need votes to get elected. And they want to stay in office in the worst possible way, at least long enough to make their fortune
from insider trading, ala MTG. It'll be interesting to see if the American voting
public wakes the Eff up, or if they stay hypnotized with culture war rhetoric.
2026 is going to be interesting.