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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumSurprisingly, U.S. taxpayers pay enough to fund national health insurance. We just don't get it.
http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/20160205_Single-payer_health_plan_wouldn_t_cost_U_S__more.htmlIn our "read my lips/over my dead body" political culture, the threat of tax increases usually shuts down proposals for single-payer national health insurance. Lately, conservative pundits - and even liberals like Hillary Clinton - have been repeating the mantra that single-payer insurance would break the bank.
Never mind that Canadians, Australians, and Western Europeans spend about half what we do on health care, enjoy universal coverage, and are healthier. Their health-care taxes are higher.
Or are they? According to our study in the current issue of the American Journal of Public Health, American taxpayers picked up 65 percent of the total health-care tab last year - a figure that will soon rise to 67 percent.
We paid $2.1 trillion in taxes to fund health care - $6,560 per person. That's more per capita than Canadians or people in any other nation pay. Indeed, our tax-financed health-care bill is higher than total health spending (private as well as public) in any other nation except Switzerland.
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/20160205_Single-payer_health_plan_wouldn_t_cost_U_S__more.html#9DrAlUeMQRvmECvv.99
Never mind that Canadians, Australians, and Western Europeans spend about half what we do on health care, enjoy universal coverage, and are healthier. Their health-care taxes are higher.
Or are they? According to our study in the current issue of the American Journal of Public Health, American taxpayers picked up 65 percent of the total health-care tab last year - a figure that will soon rise to 67 percent.
We paid $2.1 trillion in taxes to fund health care - $6,560 per person. That's more per capita than Canadians or people in any other nation pay. Indeed, our tax-financed health-care bill is higher than total health spending (private as well as public) in any other nation except Switzerland.
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/20160205_Single-payer_health_plan_wouldn_t_cost_U_S__more.html#9DrAlUeMQRvmECvv.99
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Surprisingly, U.S. taxpayers pay enough to fund national health insurance. We just don't get it. (Original Post)
Luminous Animal
Feb 2016
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msongs
(67,441 posts)1. yes but the military is doing just fine and it has medical coverage thank you nt
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)2. Kick.
Uncle Joe
(58,417 posts)3. Kicked and recommended.
Thanks for the thread, Luminous Animal.
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)6. You are welcome Uncle Joe.
questionseverything
(9,658 posts)4. i have said before
it is not that we want free stuff
it is that we want what we are already paying for
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)7. Yep.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)5. plus like another 200M people
senseandsensibility
(17,130 posts)8. k and r
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)9. Kick