Paying more taxes does not lower heathcare costs.
Costs can only be lowered by finding where the waste is -- and doing something about it.
The number #1 waste of money is in how healthcare is delivered in the USA: In an adversarial way with monetary interests being the prime driver. The uninsured get healthcare too late and influence the delivery costs and outcomes disproportionately negatively. There are too many medical errors made -- competence is lacking in well paid healthcare (no answer here
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Universal healthcare with easy access to doctor visits and early treatment will cut a lot of excessive costs out. Not using the hospital ER room for non traumatic treatment situations will lower costs. Hospital ER rooms are the most expensive 'immediate care' situations. There should be walk in 24 hr immediate care in dense urban areas. Even if it is a skeleton staff after midnight a child with a fever or a minor laceration can be tended to.
New taxes to support a failing system will only make things worse.
Paul -- go someplace reputable for charts
How does U.S. life expectancy compare to other countries? - Peterson-Kaiser Health System Tracker
Forced insurance for all taxpayers and providing the working poor with insurance IS WORKING toward healthcare accessibility but it is only increasing accessibility into a dysfunctional health delivery system. The core problems are not being addressed -- we just apply band-aids and throw more money at the problem hoping it will go away. New spending or cutting spending will not fix the deficiencies in the system.
This is why Obamacare is a fail and Trumpcare will be a fail if ever enacted. We refuse to disrupt and reorient the whole healthcare delivery system so it works best for EVERYONE.
