And very little of that goes to pay for actual health care, mostly to the bloated health care bureacracy, including the insurance providers and ambulance chasers.
The "one payer" nationalized Hillery health care system is certainly no answer. That merely perpetuates the "somebody else is paying for it" attitude and shifts the entire burden on the taxpayers.
I've begun wondering how the opposite approach would work.
Truly unleash market forces by abolishing the medical insurance industry altogether!
IMHO, this is the ONLY way to escape the current situation. We do have the best medicine in the world don't get me wrong. But medicine in this country has already been heavily subsidized and socialized, and along with the insurance bureaucracy and excessive lawsuits all these things have driven up the price.
Further socialization will not fix this broken system.