Should the United States adopt a universal healthcare system?

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AGAINST@ellewoodsMaster Debaiter1 month ago

Run the math honestly. Universal health care means the $4.5 trillion we spend now gets funded through taxes instead of premiums, and analyses of the major single-payer proposals show middle-class taxes rising by thousands a year. The money does not disappear; it moves to the IRS. And look at what single-payer systems ration: Canada's median wait for specialist treatment stretched past 27 weeks in recent Fraser Institute reports, and the UK's NHS has millions on waiting lists. Fraser Institute. Americans are used to getting an MRI this week, not next spring. You can promise universal coverage, but you cannot promise universal, immediate, free care. Something has to give, and it will be timeliness and choice.

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@ava.chambersAgainst1 month ago

The tax point never gets a straight answer from the universal care side. Premiums are already a private tax I pay every month. Show me the honest math where my total goes down, not just slogans about the rich paying.

@lucinda.bainTop DebaiterAgainst1 month ago

This is backwards. You already pay the tax, it is just called a premium and a deductible, and it goes up 12 percent a year. I would rather pay the government than a CEO whose bonus depends on denying my claim.