Surprisingly, U.S. taxpayers pay enough to fund national health insurance. We just don't get it.

[Luminous Animal]

http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/20160205_Single-payer_health_plan_wouldn_t_cost_U_S__more.html

In 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

[msongs]

1. yes but the military is doing just fine and it has medical coverage thank you nt

[Luminous Animal]

2. Kick.

[Uncle Joe]

3. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Luminous Animal.

[Luminous Animal]

6. You are welcome Uncle Joe.

[questionseverything]

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]

7. Yep.

[MisterP]

5. plus like another 200M people

[senseandsensibility]

8. k and r

[Luminous Animal]

9. Kick