if you call health-care premiums a tax (a rose by any other name etc) - Americans pay more as an amount, a percentage and per capita anyway. The only difference is the name.
Yeah, Americans don’t just pay for healthcare but also to enrich insurance company workers. And even the healthcare part is gamed because the hospitals want to gouge the insurance companies for as much as possible, which then means the insurance companies reject some treatments (and guess who is ultimately paying for the people whose role is to deny as much coverage as possible?).
if you call health-care premiums a tax (a rose by any other name etc) - Americans pay more as an amount, a percentage and per capita anyway. The only difference is the name.
Yeah, Americans don’t just pay for healthcare but also to enrich insurance company workers. And even the healthcare part is gamed because the hospitals want to gouge the insurance companies for as much as possible, which then means the insurance companies reject some treatments (and guess who is ultimately paying for the people whose role is to deny as much coverage as possible?).
That wasn’t what I was arguing.
here’s how I read it:
“it’s not free because Europeans pay taxes”
“yeah, so do Americans, they just call it premiums rather than taxes, and when comparing that way, Americans still pay way more”