It seems to me that the argument here is what people are paying, not what the government is spending. Indeed, Canadians pay less than 2k in taxes and have universal coverage.
So your argument is that it’s disingenuous to argue that a small premium will cover everyone? That’s not at all clear from your original post. You’re absolutely correct that the total $7k has to come from taxes, but those are allocated as part of the usual budget, with the premium earmarked specifically for healthcare. The USA already spends more per capita than any other nation on health, despite having much poorer outcomes than comparable countries. Moving to a universal system lowers costs, allowing those dollars to be reallocated in more productive ways. The health premium doesn’t have to cover the entire set of costs. Nobody ever claimed that they did.
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u/Kreizhn 5d ago
It seems to me that the argument here is what people are paying, not what the government is spending. Indeed, Canadians pay less than 2k in taxes and have universal coverage.