USA health costs are higher than Europe because the care is way better and also provision has to be built in for the inevitable lawsuits. So unless someone has invented a method of generating money from nowhere, tax rates will have to go up greatly on everyone until they at least equal European rates, or are greater if you want to keep the superior standard of care. Elections have consequences!
Increase Tax Rates or Tax Revenues? Raising the former does not equal an increase in the latter. Love, Arthur Laffer.