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On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:38:59 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 10:41:02 -0700, jps wrote:

On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 18:37:51 -0400, wrote:

If your health care costs were 90% lower, you might not mind paying 4X
for electricity.

My family insurance premiums, including dental, are nearly $20K/anum,
without copays or deductibles. I'm putting $6K into an FSA this year
that will cover the rest.

If a bullfrog had wings he wouldn't bump his ass all the time either.

Where was there EVER a plan to cut health care costs by 90%?

If you mean Germany you need to look at the whole tax load, not just
the energy taxes,

I'm talking about single payer, universal health care.

The German system is not single payer.

True. It's unversal health care, administered by the government but
funded by both taxes and employer/employee contributions.

Low wage workers are exempted from the health insurance taxes.

They may be exempted from paying it but it is part of their total
compensation. If they were exempted the employers would have to pay them
more so that they could pay the "tax."