One Communist responds.
It's not that I object to being forced to pay for health insurance. It's that I object to paying 20 cents on the dollar for health insurance that I am not going to get and that will be redirected to the fucking shareholders. What I'm asking for is the ability to buy into Medicare early, with my pre-tax income. Shit, the billing infrastructure is already in place for $DEITY's sake: the medicare payroll tax. Increase it appropriately and let me drop the private health insurance pre-tax payment I also make. I haven't crunched the numbers but I doubt very fucking seriously that if this was done, my take home pay wouldn't increase!
And for my misguided Capitalist friends - think of the fucking boon to businesses. They'd be completely off the hook for buying private health insurance for their employees.
Only in America could this simple solution evade our legislators.
