Reply #39: Waxman and Dems have lost control of the debate... [View All]

When it comes to single payer health insurance, with their fearful obsession with "tax increases".

It's not about taxes. It's about cost. It's about dollars. And it's about how those dollars are collected and given to health care providers to pay for services rendered.

Right now, Americans are paying far too many dollars to administer our health care payment system through private insurance companies. All we have to do is replace that inefficient private insurance payment facilitation system with a more efficient single payer system.

The dollars needed to pay for the new system will be a wash at worst. Businesses and individuals can still contribute the dollars necessary for the system, but pay that to the single payer entity, rather than to private insurance companies. No taxes need to be raised to make this conversion. We don't call insurance premiums taxes now, why would we call them taxes under a single payer system?

Making health insurance universal is what might risk additional taxes, as not everyone can afford to pay an appropriate premium for their coverage. This is why single payer should be scored by the CBO. Because the efficiencies of scale that single payer provides, can likely broaden insurance coverage to many people at no additional cost...

And again with no new taxes.

The tax argument against single payer is a logical fallacy.