Ah, but here's the thing. If the government starts covering health care, your company no longer has to cover the major portion of your insurance. I can't speak for you, but for my company they cover 90% of my premium, I'd guess that runs into the thousands of dollars per year, multiply that by my company's 350 employees and that's a tidy sum of money. The company no longer gets the tax write off for spending that on employee health care so they pay a bit more in taxes, but still keep the bulk of it. They can now afford to pay you more, reinvest it into the company and grow, or pay their shareholders a higher dividend for those companies that are corporations. Small buisness owners could keep it as profit and raise their own pay, or again, raise their employees pay or reinvest in the company to make it grow. The burden for companies would go way down, grow our economy, and raise tax revenue, helping to offset the cost to run government paid for health care.
Now, likely taxes would still have to be raised to cover the program, but with the burden of health care taken away from buisness, it shouldn't have to be raised as much. I think sometimes this gets overlooked when discussing the topic of UHC.
Does the cost of UHC concern me? Of course! I too want to know how it will affect my taxes. But having a DH with a major life long medical condition, I have to say the cost would have to be pretty dang high for me to be against it. I'd pay a lot to never have to worry about what will happen if we lose our employer paid for health insurance and we can't get or can't afford private coverage for DH.
Edited to add: It's funny you should mention Congresses health plan, because many of the UHC proposals heavily borrow ideas from their plan, if not copy it out-right.
