Single Payer Healthcare in the US

Do you think that obtaining Single Payer or Universal Healthcare in the United States seem far fetched? Out of reach? I thought so too, but not any more. Here's why, I started to take a look at my paycheck statements. Once I did that, I did some calculations, here's what I discovered.

I spend for example 230.00 on medical care on an epo plan at work, 83.00 on an Flexible Spending Account. 230.00+ 83.00= 313.00 for a family of four BI-MONTHLY.
My workplace subsidized my plan approximately 2000.00-3000.00 bi-monthly per person.
I make 26,500.00 annually, I spend 8,138.00 annually on coverage. (313.00*26).


I have worked with health care benefits for three years. There is a way in which you could fund Universal/Single Payer health care with out garnishing wages. A payroll tax of 100.00 a month for health care. The average person has 26 pay periods a year. This is how a sample of the table would appear.

1. 19,000-25,000 = 50.00 bi-monthy
2. 25,500-35,000 = 75.00 bi-monthy
3. 35,000-50,000 = 100.00 bi-monthy
4. 50,500-65,500 = 150.00 bi-monthly
5. 65,500 + = 200.00 bi-monthly

Once again I stress this is the average of what most people are paying give or take 50.00 to 100.00 depending on family size. If you take a 50.00 health care tax bi-monthly that would give the average working person back 250.00 per pay period!!!
Now, this is based on just what I and my co-workers pay, but I will be obtaining more concrete numbers here in the coming weeks, I will be envolved in the following:

1. Conducting a survey of democrats, asking how they pay on health care costs on their statements

2. Giving a scale of pricing that one would be willing to pay for health care.

These are some of the thing that I thought of that would help in the health care debate. I will attempt to start on polling in the coming weeks.... I hope you enjoy this blog