Medicare for all would cost most tax payers significantly more in taxes

Fox News:
The conservative Heritage Foundation released a study on Tuesday directly challenging the idea that a "Medicare-for-All" plan would lower costs for middle-class families.

Heritage concluded that while the health care overhaul would lower health care costs, it would raise overall costs by requiring substantial tax increases. Most American workers would purportedly have to give roughly 36.5 percent of their wages to the federal government while nearly two-thirds (65.5 percent) of American households would be financially worse off.

That proportion increased to 87.2 percent when Heritage examined households with employer-sponsored health benefits. Those households' annual disposable income would decline by an average of $10,554. For a median-income married couple with children and employer health benefits, disposable income would decrease by $9,021.

The plan would help households without workers and that receive Medicare, leaving them with a disposable income bump of $5,368. But the vast majority (82 percent) of households with workers would "see their taxes increase by more than they would save from no longer paying privately for health insurance and medical care."
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I think more people are happier with their employer-paid healthcare benefits than they would be for a Medicare for all plan.  That would especially be the case when taxes go up to pay for the Democrat mess.

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