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People will do this shit instead of paying higher taxes
America already has the highest healthcare spending per capita! We pay higher taxes AND do this shit
We don’t just have higher healthcare spending. Our health care spending per capita is about double what it is in countries with universal healthcare.
People actively advocate for this instead of paying higher taxes
The issue is that higher taxes won't solve it, lower taxes and a single payer or state owned healthcare system would.
As it stands higher taxes will just drive up rates and line the pockets of insurance executives.
The increased taxes pay for universal healthcare, which would take the place of the current costs. If you remove the cost of current healthcare plans, and pay less than that cost per year in taxes, it would pay for universal healthcare AND be less expensive. But it won't happen because taxes bad.
We already pay enough taxes into medical services to fund a UHC. Which is why you'd actually pay less in taxes (true single payer will reduce cost across the board) and also not have to pay for private healthcare.
The current system isn't some compromise, it's theft.
Universal healthcare is actually popular in the US. Pretty sure most polls show a majority want it. And one thing you have to do when determining how popular universal healthcare is you have to subtract out responses from the over 65 crowd. You do that because they are the demo most opposed to universal healthcare but they are also demo where most everyone is already on universal healthcare (Medicare). Subtract out their wildly hypocritical opinions and universal healthcare is wildly popular.
It’s just that liberal democracy never actually delivers what people want.