I believe that health care in the US is subsidized to some degree by people with higher income.
—- Medicare payroll taxes are proportional to salary.
—- Low income people that use hospitals generally don’t end up paying for their surgery and care which is passed on to people that do pay their bills.
—- Big pharma offers heavy discounts to low income patients for expensive drugs resulting in higher costs for the rest of us.
—- Under the current Afforadable Care Act free/low cost insurance is provided by raising taxes on the upper income people.
I don’t know what’s the best way to improve the system; I just wish the costs, who was paying for it, and where the money was going was more transparent. It appears that it is intentionally designed to be inscrutable.
—- Medicare payroll taxes are proportional to salary.
—- Low income people that use hospitals generally don’t end up paying for their surgery and care which is passed on to people that do pay their bills.
—- Big pharma offers heavy discounts to low income patients for expensive drugs resulting in higher costs for the rest of us.
—- Under the current Afforadable Care Act free/low cost insurance is provided by raising taxes on the upper income people.
I don’t know what’s the best way to improve the system; I just wish the costs, who was paying for it, and where the money was going was more transparent. It appears that it is intentionally designed to be inscrutable.