They don't want predatory capitalists taking a cut, and figure, correctly, that government is more trustworthy than a man with a profit motive and no morals.
The people who figure that way are absolutely wrong.
The capitalist has transparent motives. The capitalist seeks profit. The government seeks power. The government will enslave you to maintain it.
Health insurance amounts to a system of taxation that forces the healthy to pay for the sick, and lets a third party take a huge cut. Replace health insurance with actual government taxation and what have you lost, except for the greedy bastard trying to mark up your heart medications? Nothing.
One thing is lost and it's something important.
Choice. The ability to find a new insurer if you do not like the policies that are force upon you. That was a huge sticking point against the healthcare overhaul that Hillary Clinton spearheaded back in the 1990s. It would have criminalized going outside of the system.
For many of us who opposed universal government healthcare, we have the nightmare scenario of Alfie Evans. Though there was likely nothing that could have been done to help him, his parents were denied the ability to even try. He was promised free healthcare in Rome but the court prevented his parents from taking him.
No thank you.
LK