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1. QUESTION: "Why should I pay for somebody else's health care?"
Sat Feb 27, 2016, 12:15 AM
Feb 2016

ANSWER: "Because it will cost you less to insure everybody than it would cost you just to insure yourself."

Voters are too often led to believe that single-payer = higher taxes = keeping less of your hard-earned dollars. But there's a lie of omission built into that "argument." Right off the bat, the savings in not having expensive premiums, copays, or un-negotiated drug prices will offset tax increases. So the formula really shakes out to be single-payer = big drop in insurance costs + smaller bump in taxes = keeping MORE of your hard-earned dollars. Plus, there's that feel-good Christian thing of taking care of other people at the same time!

P.S. Yeah, that article DOES have a long and boring sounding name. lol

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