Maryland Patriot
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I keep pointing this out but for some reason people are not understanding it.Why not? Seriously, Canada, Uk, Germany, France, and on down the list have it. It is a proven system and it works. I seriously believe that our healthcare system shouldn't be about jacking up the price just because you're sick. That is wrong.
Canada, UK, Germany, France and down that list that have it, have had it for many generations. The people there planned their spending and their retirement savings based on the taxes and costs that the citizens would be paying for this system. There is no problem.
The U.S does not, and has not had a system such as this, the costs are actually rather high if you look at the real cost. The cost of fuel is triple ours in many cases because of the health tax that is tacked on, the taxes they pay from their earnings is higher because of the cost that is tacked on for the health care. There are higher taxes and fees hidden in all sorts of places to pay for this "free" healthcare. But they planned for it. Just like today when we go and buy a house when we are just starting out, we plan on a certain income, with a certain tax rate that we will pay, we count on putting X number of dollars away for retirement etc...
We base our purchases on these things.
So consider what happens if anyone that has planned and purchased according to their pay, suddenly has a few thousand a month tacked on to their financial obligations, they are suddenly paying 3 times the amount for fuel, their paycheck is smaller due to an increase in taxes, and, they are not seeing a pay raise that will cover this over night increase in expenses.
Where does that money come from? what do they cut out? they have to reduce spending, so they might have to sell the house and downsize, get rid of the second car and try to make due with one.
There is a big difference paying for something that was included in your original financial planning VS paying for that item suddenly when it was never a thought during the planning stages.
Single payer will kill this country. You want to see a huge poverty rate overnight? go with single payer.