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Would you pay a few % more in taxes knowing that every human in this nation could receive the healthcare they need? I would without a second thought.
U.S. health care spending grew 3.9 percent in 2017, reaching $3.5 trillion or $10,739 per person.
That exceeds tax federal income tax revenue by about $2 trillion
The us govt already spends so much on healthcare.
As employers switch to High Deductible Health Plans where insurance doesn't kick in until one has spent a deductible of several thousand dollars, many people are delaying health care in general. A doctor's visit that once cost a co-pay of $30 is now frequently a cash price from $130 to $400, plus more for lab work. With higher costs and much of them unknown in advance, many skip getting things checked until it seems…
I paid 400 dollars to have a doctor tell me to neti pot my nose after having sinus infection for 3 months. Might not be rational but fuck everything about this system. Who is pocketing all this goddamn money?
> Out-of-pocket medical spending jumps once the money hits people’s bank accounts. It is a bad thing that tax withholding is one of the few ways Americans can have savings. When you live check to check this can be your only option.
That tax withholding is the only way that many Americans manage to save speaks more to a lack of self-control than anything else. If Uncle Sam can save a lump-sum for you by deducting from your paycheck, you could have done the same (in fact, better) with a bit of resolve and a bank account.
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Usurious loans are unethical and disgusting. If people aren’t capable of effective money management, that just reinforces that the justifications used by that agency are bunk.
Practically all owns today are usurious, since interest is involved. If you look at the old testament and the Quran, this was prohibited for a reason, and we see the effects today very clearly.
> Out-of-pocket medical spending jumps once the money hits people’s bank accounts. It is a bad thing that tax withholding is one of the few ways Americans can have savings. When you live check to check this can be your only option.
How is it the only option? If withholding is less, what’s stopping people from saving the reduction? A refund is essentially an interest free loan repayment from the government. Refunds should ideally be zero.
Would you pay a few % more in taxes knowing that every human in this nation could receive the healthcare they need? I would without a second thought.
Would not be nearly enough. U.S. health care spending grew 3.9 percent in 2017, reaching $3.5 trillion or $10,739 per person. That exceeds tax federal income tax revenue by about $2 trillion The us govt already spends so much on healthcare.
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Practically all owns today are usurious, since interest is involved. If you look at the old testament and the Quran, this was prohibited for a reason, and we see the effects today very clearly.
Why would anyone lend money without interest?
Would you pay a few % more in taxes knowing that every human in this nation could receive the healthcare they need? I would without a second thought.
Few more in taxes? Maybe we can redirect some funds pocketed by the military industrial complex instead. Though Boeing and others will fight to the death over their infinite money supply/bailouts.
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Why would you expect that a bank teller has their own apartment? Your own apartment isn’t some kind of birthright. I had roommates until I was 27.
I think it is reasonable as a society that we should have options for living alone that are affordable.. or otherwise pay living wages.
Single-resident dwellings are the exception throughout human history.
Not that I necessarily disagree with you - I'm still figuring out how exactly to think about this issue.
Would you pay a few % more in taxes knowing that every human in this nation could receive the healthcare they need? I would without a second thought.
Would not be nearly enough. U.S. health care spending grew 3.9 percent in 2017, reaching $3.5 trillion or $10,739 per person. That exceeds tax federal income tax revenue by about $2 trillion The us govt already spends so much on healthcare.
And that really doesn't matter because healthcare is so distorted it's tough to even argue that it's a free market at all.