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True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)
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« on: March 12, 2017, 10:19:59 AM »

This would require a massive level of taxation and/or government control of health care considering that healthcare is currently 17% of GDP.
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True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)
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« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2017, 09:39:47 PM »

This would require a massive level of taxation and/or government control of health care considering that healthcare is currently 17% of GDP.

How many households do you think spend more than 10% of their income on healthcare right now, and what kind of households are they?
Depends, are we counting the pre-tax dollars used on employer-offered health insurance as part of the household's budget?  If so, then quite a few.  For that matter, a low-lifetime-income person on Social Security can easily have more than 10% of their Social Security going to pay their Medicare Part B premiums.
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