Does it matter to you that required health insurance premiums would not be called a tax?

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They would still be very large payments government will force people to make. People will be forced to make those payment even if they object to mainstream medicine and never use it themselves.

How is this unlike a regressive tax?
 
Worse, it will price people who have insurance now out of it. In massachusetts, which has a plan this is based on, they are deciding to let those 50+ opt out of getting it because it is too expensive for them. So they wouldn't be fined, but wouldn't have insurance either. Since most DID have it before the plan went into effect, that is a shame, don't you think?

And so much for the reality of covering 'preexisting conditions' since the whole reason insurance costs more when you are older is you are more likely to have preexisting conditions -- and old age is viewed as a preexisting condition itself.
 
Not to ones standard of living.. *ANY* mandate by the Government has a negative effect on ones total disposable income. Environmental mandates are among the worst offenders... The "Cape and Trade" scam will cost the average household more than $1500 a year just in electricity bills, with additional cost in transportation. (driving to work, etc)

Supposedly it won't be a "regressive tax" because lower incomes will be subsidized. Of coarse *someone* has to pay for it and the actual effect will be *more* low income workers due to the loss of jobs in the economy caused by increased cost (the result of the "subsidy")
 
I was told by a doctor at one time that the premiums that we pay all our lives are used up in the last two years of our life. So in fact maybe we only pay for our own health care in the end.
 
Let us stipulate that it IS a tax for the purpose of this discussion. So what?

Your taxes and mine pay for the Armed Forces and the Interstate Highway system, whether or not we were attacked and whether or not we drive. Together, our taxes fund the radar and traffic control system, the Air Traffic Controllers who make commercial air travel safe even if we never leave home. We support a large National Park System and virtually no one has visited them all. Taxes from non-readers and readers alike pay for the libraries. Our taxes help fund the fire department that saved someone else's home and someone else’s business.

Health care should be like that.
 
In the United Kingdom the population pay National Insurance. It is a compulsory payment that is taken from all salary, even welfare income, and is taken from everybody over 16 years old. It is not called tax, but essentially it is.

The funds are used to provide health care, welfare, and state pensions to the entire population. I think the approximate value of the payment is somewhere around 5% of the income. In my opinion, and having many years experience of both, it is a lot cheaper than paying for health insurance in the USA, even with a large contribution from our employers. And there is absolutely no chance of me ever being dropped by the company, or refused care in anyway.
 
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