Reply #14: Exactly. Not one NET penny more...

[FormerDittoHead]

If we, my wife and I, weren't ALREADY paying for health insurance, I'd be HAPPY to pay the SAME AMOUNT in higher taxes to join a gov't run health insurance system that would cover everyone.

And ASSUMING that reform would LOWER OUR PREMIUMS, I would pay the DIFFERENCE in a taxes.

BUT NOT MORE.

I DO *NOT* SUPPORT PAYING MORE TAXES TO THEN BE GIVEN TO CORPORATIONS TO SUPPORT A *BROKEN* SYSTEM.

We *ALREADY* pay *PER CAPITA* (those with AND without insurance) more than any other country. ANY OTHER COUNTRY. NOT "MOST OTHER COUNTRIES".

EVERY OTHER COUNTRY IN THE *WORLD* HAS FIGURED OUT HOW TO PAY LESS PER PERSON EVEN *WITH* PRIVATE INSURANCE AND MOST WITH COVERING EVERYONE.

There is NO EXCUSE for any substantive health care bill to end up raising taxes on 98% of people.

There are MAJOR, STRUCTURAL PROBLEMS with our system, and simply creating a "tax and redistribute" welfare state with corporations as middlemen isn't going to work economically nor politically. One such, major problem in our system is the 'fee for service' model.
ref: http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0910/p09s01-coop.html

THERE WILL BE *NO EXCUSE* for ANY tax increase on 98+% of Americans (who already pay for coverage) to go up as a result of whatever reform comes out.

ANY TAX INCREASE ON MIDDLE (98+%) AMERICANS IS A TOTAL FAIL.