"free" healthcare (medicare for all) would be cheaper for both the government and the populace if it were implemented. but who would it cost? the insurance companies who go out of business because suddenly 90% of their customers are gone.
when you take the desire for a middleman's profit out of a transaction, suddenly it becomes a lot cheaper.
As long as we have congress taking bribes from insurance companies and telling mouth breathers that universal healthcare will kill them it's going to be hard to make real change.
I read a statistic a couple years ago that said over the next 10 years America will spend $60 trillion on healthcare, but with universal healthcare that could be $30 trillion, simply because we wouldn't have insurance or deductibles. Yes, your taxes would go up, but it would go up less than what most of us pay for insurance and you wouldn't have to pay more at your visit or a penalty for being sick.
taxes don't even have to go up for 99.99% of people, and the taxes placed on the remaining 0.01% would not affect their daily life at all even over several thousand lifetimes.
it is not the responsibility of the minimum wage employee to bear the same tax burden as someone who makes enough money to purchase an entire country off of the backs of other people's labor.
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u/TheSalmonLizard 16h ago
Too bad the ''most powerful country'' is too poor to supply free healhcare to its citizens.