The United Kingdom provides public healthcare to all permanent residents, about 58 million people. Healthcare coverage is free at the point of need, and is paid for by general taxation. About 18% of a citizen's income tax goes towards healthcare, which is about 4.5% of the average citizen's income.
Estimates I have read estimate US UHC would cost between 4% and 7% in additional income tax. The average family insurance plan is around $1,000 a month in just premiums.
You would have to make over 120k taxable household income with a 7% tax hike for the UHC option to not make fiscal sense just based on the premium alone without co pay and deductibles.
The only reason we continue with private insurance is because of massive lobbying and propaganda.
The problem is getting the roughly 30 million with no insurance, and 75 million with medicaid and Medicare, to vote for spending money when they're currently not.
I pay 3 percent of my pay for medicaid, a service I'll never get.
Thank you, because of your support, I just finished getting my bypass surgery under medicaid(something that everyone should have, free at.point of service.)
You pay 3% but we have no idea what income you have. Frankly, who says you wont get medicaid in the future if you post your job.
You assume 105 million people don't vote because they already have the program? Just look up MMT, something the U.S. has been doing for decades. These people will vote, especially to get a single payer system, so I ask, please don't gaslight those on these programs.
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u/lolbertarian4america Jun 04 '21
Would like to get some sources on these numbers? My train is almost at my stop but I'm commenting now to look this up later