How the blazes can Sanders' UHC plan cost $32T?

It* is* a hit piece, from a trickle-down/small government True Believer. Table 1 from Blahous’ paper reallly says it all (page 4 of the PDF), because it assumes administrative cost savings of $83 billion per year. To quote myself, that figure is only half of US wasted administrative spending:

Blahous attempts to justify his administrative cost calculations starting on page 14, but none of his arguments are very convincing. For example, he cites existing Medicare administrative costs and claims they will go up. This is nonsense, because Medicare will no longer have to determine if it is the primary payor in every single transaction as it does now.