Cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/34117495
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Why? UHC is cheaper than the current system. You wouldnβt need any extra taxes.
Itβs only cheaper if you consider current healthcare costs. It would require tax increases, and under current progressive tax models, those would be disproportionately high for the upper class, for whom the increase would not offset the elimination of their healthcare premium.
No, the sum of all premiums paid by all Americans is way more than is required. You could make it a flat tax and itβd still be cheaper.
The tax increase is more than offset by the cost of premiums.
That may be the case, but do you have any evidence or reasoning? There are a certain number of people right now who donβt have insurance or who have very bad insurance, and a universal insurance would have to have to make up whatβs missing for those people.
I donβt know how you can say with any confidence that the increase would not offset the elimination of their healthcare premium when the system literallydoesnβt exist.
Yeah we need to deflate the disproportionately high pricing of the health care caused by insurance as well, if we could get it at the national level we could eliminate a lot of the back office overhead, and then maybe negotiate a revisit of the master charge list so that Tylenol in hospital isnβt something crazy like $250 dollars a dose. State by state this would probably be much more difficult.
