fatvegan

One very good argument against free public health care is that the people who benefit the most from it are going to be the rich. The rich will live much longer, and probably die more slowly, and so consume more public health resources than the poor. You have poor young workers paying tax to fund the very expensive health care of rich old people.

But I think you can probably just make the tax regime more progressive. Make it progressive enough that on average the rich pay for their own health care, and then some. Things like the Medicare levy are an attempt to increase that progressiveness. I love the Medicare levy. I'll give it three cheers.

But three boos for the government letting rich people stop paying it when they buy heavily subsidised disfunctional private health insurance. So lame.