--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> <snip>
> > The chances of an American administration
> > and/or an American Congress being able to resist the
> > pressure and often outright bribes made by these
> > companies is, in my opinion, slight. It's almost as
> > if it'll require junking the entire system and start-
> > ing over to fix it. And how likely is that?
>
> As the Common Dreams guy notes, though, the French
> have to pay significantly higher taxes in return for
> their excellent health care. So it's not just the
> pressure from those who profit from the current
> health care system the legislators would have to
> resist, but from the taxpayers as well--especially
> the upper-income taxpayers who are less dependent
> on good health insurance for their medical care.
Actually, for most folks, taxes in France are not
*that* much higher than in the US. The primary
difference is that the Federal tax revenue covers
basic essentials such as health care for everyone,
as a given. In the US, these costs ("emergency"
health care for the uninsured) are absorbed by
individual state and local governments, which then
have to raise *their* taxes, resulting in a higher
and higher *total* tax bill to the taxpayer. The
illusion of lower Federal taxes becomes just that.
It's just passing the buck.
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