Country's with socialized medicine vs the USA (Personal Income Tax)

How do I get to pay only 29% tax....I am single and pay 37% fed. tax and am lucky to live in a state with no state income tax... I think those numbers are a little off, or I am just being really screwed when it comes to tax... I have a single friend in the U.K. and her tax is alot lower than mine... She pays in about 29.5% per year!! which is still high, but she does have medical coverage at no cost out of pocket!! If we could have all the people in the country covered, I wouldn't care if I payed the same as i do now or even a little more... Insurance and pharm. companies have made enough money on the backs of americans..enough is enough!!! They can make less money. If they don't want to do that, then let them go somewhere else ...They both have sucked the medical industry dry.. It has to change.. How many pt's do we have to see that can't afford their medicines before we as a country do something about it?

What I really want is help stop Americans from dying from lack of health insurance....

Here is a chart showing what other countries really pay in taxes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_rates_around_the_world

Here is a great website showing how other countries have implemented national health care: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...oryId=91972152

We have socialized education, socialized police and fire, and socialized postal system. Why not socialized health care?

How are you judging the "highest standard of living" with regard to health, though? The US does not really win any category of assessing health outcomes, despite its significantly larger expenditure than other first world countries.

No doubt, total universal coverage is not the answer - it's not financially sustainable. But a mixed private/public system absolutely is.

We limit corporation's profits all the time by dictating what they may and may not do according to corporate law. That doesn't make it a communist state. There is no room in a civilized society for "profit at any cost".

I'm from Australia. In Aus, I paid 37-43% tax for $80-100K income. In the US, it's around 35-40% (between federal, state and city taxes). However if I get hit by a bus in Australia, I won't go bankrupt paying my medical bills.

I love how you dismiss data that is "blatantly liberal" but then continue to spout "blatantly conservative" claims with no supporting evidence.