Generating support for single-payer health care is important, but it will never succeed without planning for the trade-offs necessary to make it work.

Practically everyone (except Kevin Drum at Mother Jones) believes single-payer would cut health care costs. It’s the heart of the whole debate.

Single-payer opponents claim it’s politically impossible get a majority in Congress to oppose the health care industry, but House GOP just proved them wrong.

Attempts to convince states to adopt single-payer healthcare face significant hurdles that are both legal and financial.

In Part 3 of Jon Walker’s series, he examines various hurdles at the federal level that Americans must overcome to achieve a universal health care system.