>Medicare and Medicaid are subsidized by a shadow tax on working people
It's right there on the damn W2, how is that a "shadow" tax?
>Commercial insurance, ..., pays roughly double the cost per procedure as Medicare and Medicaid.
And also every other developed country! Why is "the average american or their health plan pays double everyone else" a good thing?
>Your health premiums would be lower if we all paid the same price, but your taxes would be higher.
Also laughable. Somehow our citizens pay way more than anyone else in the world, and largely don't have better life expediencies (women giving birth in america die shockingly often!). We pay more into private healthcare systems than the rest of the world pays into public systems.
It's right there on the damn W2, how is that a "shadow" tax?
>Commercial insurance, ..., pays roughly double the cost per procedure as Medicare and Medicaid.
And also every other developed country! Why is "the average american or their health plan pays double everyone else" a good thing?
>Your health premiums would be lower if we all paid the same price, but your taxes would be higher.
Also laughable. Somehow our citizens pay way more than anyone else in the world, and largely don't have better life expediencies (women giving birth in america die shockingly often!). We pay more into private healthcare systems than the rest of the world pays into public systems.