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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Lane3 who wrote (4066)	2/2/2008 4:15:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) of 42652

Lane, OK. I assumed that those who pay no income tax would be a reasonable proxy for those who would end up getting free coverage. If you can't contribute to the general fund, you would most likely to be on the receiving end of free coverage were coverage made universal and tiered. No? The countries that have government type, single payer health plans don't give a free ride to people at the very bottom. These countries have heavy taxation that hits the poorest people (unlike the US). These taxes are in form of payroll taxes (regardless of whether they are visible or not visible - employer paid) and in form of consumption (value added) taxes. Value added taxes are around 20% in most of Europe. Payroll taxes vary widely, and are higher than payroll taxes in the US. Portion of the payroll taxes is actually specially designed to pay for health care. And, BTW, these payroll taxes are not "progressive" as income taxes. Joe

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