In this article, I discuss the US healthcare system. Specifically I focus on costs and some shortfalls of our system. I discuss universal healthcare, the ACA, and monopoly pricing. Overall, healthcare premiums should be thought of as taxes since they eat into all of our paychecks. Since healthcare premiums are a reflection of underlying healthcare costs, we need to bring prices down if we want to normalize the amount of GDP we spend on healthcare relative to other countries.
Why Healthcare Premiums are Taxes
Why Healthcare Premiums are Taxes
Why Healthcare Premiums are Taxes
In this article, I discuss the US healthcare system. Specifically I focus on costs and some shortfalls of our system. I discuss universal healthcare, the ACA, and monopoly pricing. Overall, healthcare premiums should be thought of as taxes since they eat into all of our paychecks. Since healthcare premiums are a reflection of underlying healthcare costs, we need to bring prices down if we want to normalize the amount of GDP we spend on healthcare relative to other countries.