Universal health Care (or really insurance)

[Mursilis]

Originally posted by: eskimospy
Why people view the cost of UHC as some additional tax on top of what they are already paying is beyond me. You either pay for it in a lower salary as you do now, or you pay for it in a tax. The costs of health care are everywhere around you, you just don't notice.

You're probably right that we won't see significant tax increases with UHC, because people are still strongly tax adverse, and the Dems are smart enough to know any increase would just hand power back to the GOP (a replay of '94), so we'll just see more ballooning of the deficit. Some will argue that UHC would actually save us money, but that's just theoretical until it's actually applied and we see the true numbers. Any historical review of large gov't programs (SS, Medicare, Medicaid) demonstrates that the projected long-term costs pale in comparison to the actual long-term costs.