- John Edwards says we need to raise taxes to fix health care, and you can bet that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will eventually say so too.
- Start with the fact that business now spends a stunning $500 billion a year, or 4 percent of GDP, on health-care benefits. Let's say we shifted that cost to government - that's right, relieved business of it entirely - and, to make matters simple, combined it with other public funds to give citizens a voucher with which they could buy a private health plan.
- The moral of the story? We have reached a moment in the history of American capitalism where business's traditional Me-Tarzan-you- Jane-taxes-bad mindset is one of the biggest obstacles to pragmatically rethinking our health-care and pension systems.
Até os Americanos já admitem que face ao monstro da despesa da saúde, só há uma saída: pagar mais impostos!
Sinceramente, nós não gostamos da solução, ate porque ao contrário dos EUA, por cá, em Portugal, os impostos que suportam o SNS já são demasiados, ao contrário dos EUA, onde não existe um SNS.








