Medicare-for-all Means Taxes-for-all

by Editorial Board, Washington Post, Aug 5, 2026 - Roughly three-quarters of Medicare-for-all supporters believe that it could be paid for entirely by taxing billionaires. They’re wrong.

... Just 40 percent knew the truth: Medicare-for-all would require raising taxes on most taxpayers, including the middle class. 

... no existing health care system anywhere in the world is funded by taxing the rich while everyone else pays nothing. Other countries’ systems also don’t offer unlimited care to everyone for free. They ration, constrain and use various forms of cost-sharing.

... The British start paying 40 percent tax when their incomes rise above about $68,000. Belgians pay 40 percent beginning at only about $19,000. Yes, $19,000. (read it all)

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