The U.S. spends two and a half times the OECD average on health care costs per capita (http://www.oecd.org/unitedstates/BriefingNoteUSA2012.pdf) but we do not get better health care results and leave millions of Americans uninsured.
A large portion of U.S. health care spending goes to salaries and profits for private health insurance companies and to administrative costs of hospitals and clinics associated with completing paperwork in this overly complex system. In addition, this fractured system limits bargaining power on prices.
We therefore request that you quantify the costs of maintaining a system of private health insurance companies instead of a Medicare-for-all system and specifically enumerate the benefits resulting from the current system that justifies these costs.