"Although it still hasn't been established that this is what will happen if we get a health care reform bill passed."

EXACTLY!!!!

It's nice to see that you agree that it has not been established that our taxes will increase if a health care reform bill is passed.


"How high do you think your taxes would go up there where you are in Maryland if all of the 50 million uninsured people in the US moved there so they could get access to your health care system? Do you really think that's a workable alternative"

YET yopu seem to think if they are put on the FEDERAL tax roles the impact will be reasonable???

First of all, you are the one suggesting that taxes will go up if health care reform is passed. I don't agree with this premise. However, let's use a hypothetical. If you have 50 million people who are currently uninsurable, it is either because they too poor to pay for private insurance, or they are older or have pre-existing conditions. All of which makes them more expensive as a group than the overall population, which also includes a lot of young healthy people.

Spreading the cost over the whole population of hundreds of millions of people means each person pays a lot less than if the cost of that group of 50 million uninsurables was spread over the current population of the state of Maryland, which is only a few million people (a little over five and a half million total, but only a fraction of those are taxpayers, since some are children, people on disabilities, or retired). So yes, in such a scenario, taxes would go up a lot less for everyone if everyone was paying for it than if only the people in the state of Maryland were paying for it.

It's just basic economics, beardedbruce. Economy of scale.