Why national health care, don' t people know how much our taxes will go up?

Answer 1

For rich people, taxes will go up a lot. For poor people, they might not go up much at all. Some poor people want to use the government to steal as much money as they can from rich people.

Answer 2

I suspect that everybody believes that a universal health care system would be a positive. The trouble is, nobody seems to be able to come up with a workable proposal. It is not a workable proposal to preach in a political sound bite that if elected, the candidate will see that all children will have free health care. That's a dream, not a solution. We all want to see everybody's health care needs attended to. That's not the debate. Or shouldn't be anyway. The debate needs to center around demanding from the various candidates that they work to find real solutions and tell us what it's going to cost. It does nothing for me to hear someone say that we can insure more people for less money in taxes than we currently pay in premiums. Show me. And while you folks are at it, show me another country that does a better job of health care for over a quarter billion people that do have very good health insurance as is the case in America.

Answer 3

They would go up, certainly, but how much is open to debate.

Government run health care is many times more efficient than private. Medicaid and Medicare run at very low administrative costs while for profit insurance runs at 12% or more administrative cost, and that's BEFORE profit taking.

Ultimately, it would save us money, though. We currently have to pay because when people are denied health care they can't get help until the conditions are really bad. Then they come in, run up huge medical bills that go unpaid - they have to default on debts that hurt other banks and companies, the hospitals recoup that loss by charging the rest more, which means that insurance companies turn around and pass those costs along as well.

We already pay a heavy cost. By having everyone insured, and incentivizing the system to reward PREVENTATIVE care, and not expensive reactionary activity, there would be HUGE overall savings.

But it would cost us in taxes, right? Depends on whether it is funded by a general tax increase or specific, targeted levies. Most suggestions deal with a payroll tax hike.

But wouldn't that hurt companies? Some yes, most no. Companies already pay much more to provide health insurance. The costs would be spread around. GM has stated that thousands of dollars in each car's price goes to health insurance. The companies would actually save money, overall, which would be passed onto the public though better wages, lower prices and better returns on investment.

Japanese countries have located manufacturing plants in Canada, with a much, much higher tax burden than the US because it is more profitable - because of health insurance costs.

It helps to know the actual facts. It's a complex system, and trying to dumb it down into "taxes go up, so bad" doesn't take into account the tremendous waste and inefficiency of the current system.

Answer 4

Can you put a price on human life?
People have died already and there are more going to die, some of which were children.

Sence some of the CEO's of the healthcare system make enought in one year to pay for the health insurance of 10,000 families, We need to have a CAPITAL HOLDINGS TAX that will only effect those people that are holding more that 2 million dollars. Then we can take 1 dollar for every thousand they hold over the set limit. These people are hording our resources it is time they reliquish. Besides the poor people of this and every other country in the world out number then 1,000,000 to 1
Tell all the police officers of this country it is time to ask for a raise.
John.

Answer 5

Did you notice that not one person answered your question?

They all quoted the same ole thing, the US now spends more per captia than any other country.

They never even try and answer the basic question,

Just where and how will the money for nationalized health care come from.

They seem to think that someone will wave a magical wand and all the money currently being spent, will show up in the government coffers to fund national health care.

From my research, it will require a 69% increase in the income tax and corporate income tax to fund national health care.

Thats based on, national health care costing about 1.5 trillion dollars per year. About $5,000 per citizen per year.

Thats what we currently spend on medicare per person per year.

Since the US government now spends about 580 billion a year on health care, we would need an additional 920 billion dollars per year.

Based on last years Federal tax receipts from all sources.

To raise an additional 920 billion in tax receipts, would require a 69% tax increase.

They might be able to front load the tax increase where corporations receive the majority of the tax increase, since corporations now fund the majority share of people health insurance cost.

So your still looking at a 30% increase in the income tax rate.

For someone making:

$20,000 a year, the increase would be $900.00
$30,000 a year, the increase would be $1,800.00
$40,000 a year, the increase would be $2,800.00
$50,000 a year, the increase would be $4,200.00

Since the average person and family pays about $1,200 a year in health insurance premiums ( the company they work for pays the rest )

It would be a increase in thier health cost.

Only those who currently do not have health insurance and those who make less than $25,000 a year would benefit from that system.

Answer 6

The question is -- will they go up more than what most people are paying for health insurance right now?

If not, and IF the level of health care is the same, than all the govt is doing is taking the place of the insurance company.

And taxes don't have to go up if the same money is spent on health care rather than being given to foreign countries. If the govt is insistent on spending money, shouldn't it be spending it on Americans, rather than giving it away?

Answer 7

This is actually not a terrible thing. Look into how Canada works, we have national health care, and from what I understand our taxes are lower then in the average American State.

Answer 8

Taxes aren't bad. When the funds are used properly, like for universal health care, the ends justify the means. You're just used to your tax dollars being spent frivolously on wars and false threats.

Answer 9

Democrats don't worry about rising taxes. If taxes aren't going up under their watch, they don't believe they're doing their job.
Look at that idiot democratic governor of IL The state isn't paying its health providers now, and this bonehead is pushing to provide a state health care program.

Why this socialist pig is taking a page right out of Hugo Chavez's playbook . Play to the poor, they love freebees!

Answer 10

People want a quick fix to problem that has taken like 30 years to develop. Not only would your taxes go up, you life style would be regulated by the government. You couldn't smoke , you couldn't drink, you couldn't have unprotected sex because all of these things lead to costly health care issues. If you are gay you better watch out because the government would regulate that as well, because treatment of AIDS and HIV is very expensive. And all of you guys out there who like extreme sports they would make those illegal. Of course it wouldn't happen immediately, they would put the frog in the pot of water and slowly turn up the heat. By the time you where ready to jump you'd be in boiling water.