Sick and struggling to pay, 100M people in the U.S. live with medical debt

Re:Sick and struggling to pay, 100M people in the U.S. live ... by notch656a on Thursday June 16, 2022 @12:15PM (#31767761)

So just redistributing the cost across the population? I think then you just end up with more people in debt, as their incomes fall to pay the tax.

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Re:Sick and struggling to pay, 100M people in the U.S. live ... by kelseyfrog on Thursday June 16, 2022 @12:25PM (#31767910)

I think you just end up with less people in debt and incomes rise to pay the tax. I guess we'll just have to try it out and see.

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Re:Sick and struggling to pay, 100M people in the U.S. live ... by namdnay on Thursday June 16, 2022 @12:26PM (#31767930)

except that you redistribute according to means, seeing as tax is correlated to income. so instead of having a random dice roll ("ah, you're working multiple low-hour jobs and you just got cancer? game over!"), you pay a bit more of your income as tax

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Re:Sick and struggling to pay, 100M people in the U.S. live ... by notch656a on Friday June 17, 2022 @12:39AM (#31774188)

I'll take the random dice roll and my tax money.

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