It would lower costs for individuals and employers since they no longer have to worry about their employees health care and also the government. We pay more than any other nation and we have private healthcare.
Here's where you can find me slapping my forehead with my palm.....
If the individuals and employers stop funding health care, I'm assuming you understand that the government would then be responsible for funding it right? I mean, single payer IS what you are talking about after all.....
Now stop. Please try to use a little sense here.....
If the government pays for everyone's healthcare, which is what SINGLE PAYER is, where does the government get the money to pay for it??????
lol....I swear, do liberals ever think???
Get this through your head, the government cannot spend a single dime before it FIRST extracts money from the private sector economy through taxation. Get it? The money the government would spend on funding healthcare, WOULD STILL BE PAID by private sector tax payers. Understand now? The government doesn't make a profit on anything it does, so this is still funded by tax dollars.
Now, calculate the cost. You would either have to raise taxes dramatically in order to cover the costs!!!! You praise other country's who have SINGLE PAYER, but you refuse to recognize their freaking tax rates!!!! Every single person in Canada pays something in taxes. That's not so here in America. We would have to transition from 47% of Americans paying NO FEDERAL INCOME TAXES, to approximately 5% paying NO FEDERAL INCOME TAXES, just to cover the cost. So, you go ahead and campaign on tax hikes to pay for universal healthcare for everyone. It would sink like a lead balloon.
In Canada, there isn't simply a federal income tax rate, but there is also a PROVINCE/TERRITORY tax rate, in addition to a federal tax rate. Everyone is subject to paying it too. Wanna know the primary reason why? Single payer health care. EVERYONE has to pay something in order for it to work.
So, the day that EVERYONE starts paying income taxes in America, is the day that Obamacare MIGHT work.
Also, read the CBO reports on Obamacare. It takes 10 years of funding, to pay for 6 years of benefits. Let me translate this for you. It takes 10 years worth of premiums paid, to cover the 6 year costs of the insurance companies to cover pre-ex conditions, and children up to 26 years old. This is simply a fact jack.
Since the passage of Obamacare, it hasn't lowered the cost of anything! In fact, the rates have risen faster than any other 4 year period in history! 18% national average of increase IN ONE YEAR!
Compare the marginal tax rates in countries with universal health care, as opposed to marginal tax rates in America. When 90-95% of the country is willing to pay a much higher tax rate, then, maybe universal health care would work in this country. But when we have 47% of a nation that pays NOTHING in federal income tax, you simply cant fund it. Period.
So let Obama campaign all he wants for Obamacare and universal health care. He'll have to run on tax hikes, and big ones, in order to fund it.....that isn't going to fly in America. In England, the top marginal rate is 50%. Campaign on that Obama....see how far you get....