Majority would support higher taxes in exchange for universal health care. Of course if done right, instead of done-to-please-the-insurance-lobby-and-joe-klein, universal health care would be cheap for all involved.
What's rather frustrating in the health care debate is that there's a universally understood but rarely mentioned fact that insurance companies wield disproportionate power on the Hill, that their
bribes lobbying dollars will prevent a clean universal health care bill from being passed, and that this fact should be understood as a sign that something is really wrong with the way our politics operates.