Open letter to the DUmmies regarding universal health care

[I_B_Perky]

OK Dummies... ya all been jonesing for single payer/universal health care.  Well this is about the best article I have ever seen on it.

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/columnists/nolan-finley/2017/05/13/finley-ready-pay-free-health-care/101658894/

Yes it is an opinion column but it has a lot a facts in it.

Some excerpts:

The real question isn’t whether we can have national health care, it’s whether Americans really want to pay for it.

National health care countries pay for the benefits through tax rates that would be considered unbearable by most Americans.

While the U.S. has pursued a policy of relieving the tax burden on lower-income workers —nearly half of wage earners pay no federal income tax — Europe’s middle class gets no such break.

Similarly, if you’ve been to Europe or Asia, you’ve noticed the roads are filled with cute little matchbox cars. We like our big trucks and roomy SUVs here. And we can afford to drive them. That’s largely because the average fuel tax in the U.S. is 53 cents a gallon, compared to an average $2.62 cents in the other large, industrial nations.

Europe has extraordinarily high tax rates on its wealthy residents, and yet still must hit the middle class with taxes that consume nearly half their earnings to pay for all those nice things us tax averse Americans envy.

Simple fact dummies.  Free health care will hit your asses in the wallet the hardest. 

[SVPete]

An indirect acquaintance (I'm trying to anonymize the person while laying out their situation) goofed in last year's re-enrollment at their job and opted out of the company's health plan. By the time this was realized, they could not change that choice. So they were stuck with going through Cover California - OhBUMMERCare. For worse than crappy coverage, they would, for the year, have paid between $7500 and $8000. They could not handle that, so the person just recently changed jobs. It was the person's fault that they were outside of the company plan; it's OhBUMMERCare's fault the person had to get some kind of coverage and that the available coverage was insanely expensive and insanely crappy.

That is OhBUMMERCare reality, not the ooey-gooey everybody-can-have-healthcare-coverage crapola!

[98ZJUSMC]

The (D)Retard class assumes that the cost will all be borne by the "rich", who already pay almost 80 % of the total tax burden.

Sorry, drooling i(D)iots..............

You're going to have to hammer your precious "poor", your beloved immigrants and your welfare-sucking, minority, useless fvcksticks to pay for it. 

......and it still will fall short of what they think they are going to get.

Then, what happens? 

Note:

Norway - essentially energy independent - has a population "of less" than Cook County.  Do the math, sub-human retards.

[Adam Wood]

The (D)Retard class assumes that the cost will all be borne by the "rich", who already pay almost 80 % of the total tax burden.

Sorry, drooling i(D)iots..............

You're going to have to hammer your precious "poor", your beloved immigrants and your welfare-sucking, minority, useless fvcksticks to pay for it. 

......and it still will fall short of what they think they are going to get.

Then, what happens? 

Note:

Norway - essentially energy independent - has a population "of less" than Cook County.  Do the math, sub-human retards.

"Every time someone tries to 'soak the rich,' it's the middle class who winds up getting wet."

~ Phil Valentine.