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July 14, 2005
States Seek Increased Payroll Taxes for Universal Health Care
Currently, 18 states are considering bills that would create a single-payer health care system. The majority of these bills propose to create a state government-run insurance plan funded by payroll taxes and new taxes on income.
Though people's satisfaction with their insurance is decreasing, a Kaiser Foundation poll earlier this year showed that 55 percent of Americans opposed a single-payer health system.
Posted by WorkerBee at July 14, 2005 09:03 AM