Tax: How much “tax” (taxes)
will an individual and a family pay
for Improved Medicare for All
via single-payer health care?

Why an estimate is not available for how much an individual or family would pay in taxes.

• No bill is under consideration. No national health-care-for-all legislation, such as U.S. House bill H.R. 676, has enough support yet to be considered for debate and economic analysis by the U.S. Congress. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) will not do an economic evaluation until a bill has enough support of Congress.

Unwritten rule. A bill in the U.S. House must have a minimum of 100 cosponsors among the 435 members of the U.S. House.

Current status of support for Medicare for All via single-payer health care. Go here to see the current level of support in the U.S. House and here to see the current level of support in the U.S. Senate.

• There are multiple funding proposals. There have been and are many funding proposals with either national-based or state-based single-payer funding proposals. U.S. Congress committees and associated analysis will need to narrow down the proposals to one.
• We, the people, need to first establish the demand for Improved Medicare for All, such as by having people learn about it and sign up at this website.
  • Then there will be enough focus placed on the proposed legislation to resolve the number of proposals with the help of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) evaluations.
  • Then one financing proposal can be established, refined to a final proposal, and evaluated by the CBO.

In the meantime … what can we expect for overall costs, including taxes? For many years the average cost of health care per person in other free-market countries has consistently been 40% of what Americans pay.

The Costs and Savings web page provides more explanation about the cost-cutting (“savings”) indicated by the above figure.

Additional Information

We already pay the current Medicare tax:
      1.45% paid by employers; 1.45% paid by employers

Ideas for sources of funding considerations can be found within the appropriate section of H.R. 676.

We will have the best health-care-for-all system.

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