Is the 8% tax for Bernie's Medicare for All plan accurate?

[LongTomH]

Has Bernie released any figures for new taxes? Hillary's supporters are hitting hard on this and I would like some figures for argument's sake.

Edited to add: I found this post which quoted a 2.2% tax increase for people making less than $250 K:

Bernie's healthcare legislation would impose a 2.2% tax on people earning <$250,000, and the tax would scale from there in a progressive fashion. However, the tax increase would be more than offset by eliminating private insurance payments and end up *saving* tax payers money overall. Funny how that last bit never seems to get mentioned.

[Turbineguy]

1. If they are going to have honest costing

of medical care, hopefully the other ways it's paid for now will be reduced. Like property taxes and bankruptcy costs.

[exboyfil]

2. Germany is a 15.5%

Split between employee and employer.

In a sense it is accurate if you are talking about the employee portion of the contribution. Of course we will need to get our annual spend down by about a 1/3 (I am not sure about the actual numbers - it has been a while since I looked at it).

Remember current Medicare withholding is 1.45%/1.45%

[Warren Stupidity]

3. You understand that this is offset by zeroing out

your employer insurance premiums, deductibles, and co-pays, right?

[Cleita]

5. People don't look at that. They forget that they won't be paying

for private insurance and/or co-pays and deductibles.

[Warren Stupidity]

6. 35 years of corporate brainwashing has done its job.

The shit I see here on a "progressive" "liberal" "democratic" board is amazing.

[LongTomH]

4. Actually, Individuals would only pay 2.2% the 8.7% figure is the employers share

8 ‘‘PART VIII—HEALTH CARE INCOME TAX ON
9 INDIVIDUALS

‘‘Sec. 59B. Health care income tax.

10 ‘‘SEC. 59B. HEALTH CARE INCOME TAX.

11 ‘‘(a) IMPOSITION OF TAX.—In the case of an indi-

12 vidual, there is hereby imposed a tax (in addition to any

13 other tax imposed by this subtitle) equal to 2.2 percent

14 of the taxable income of the taxpayer for the taxable year.

http://www.pnhp.org/PDF_files/American-Health-Security-Act-single-payer.pdf

[Enthusiast]

7. We can say one thing for absolute certain. Removing the profiteers from the equation

will substantially lower the cost and increase efficiency.

Another thing we can say is single payer is not pie in the sky.

If all these other countries can have single payer so can we. No pie in the sky!

[Zorra]

8. I'd be glad to pay extra taxes if it meant I never had to deal with a private

health insurance company ever again. I detest them, almost to point of hatred, and am sick of them trying to cheat me, and am totally sick of how much free time they suck from my life because of me having to prove they are ripping me off all the time.

First thing we do, we kill all the private insurance companies.