It's funny how people are so worried about paying all these extra taxes.
1. You already pay for other people's care. Like when someone without health insurance has to go to the emergency room and can't afford the bill that is many times what preventative care would be. Yeah, that is paid by tax payers.
2. You also already pay if you have to purchase it privately or your employer buys it. The insurance plans in the US are at least twice as much as they are in countries that have universal healthcare. Just because you don't see what you're employer has to pay for you, don't think that it isn't counted as part of your compensation.
Bottom line, every other industrial nation has universal healthcare, provides it at less than half the price, and has better overall health outcomes. Please, don't give me any American exceptionalism on this, we've got it wrong because hospital and insurance lobbyists are making tons of money in the status quo and they're investing a good chunk of that money into brainwashing some of the fools who have posted here. - Eric
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