You also pay for Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, health care exchange subsidies and lots more through your general taxes. This comes to $1.5 Trillion in Federal healt

You also pay for Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, health care exchange subsidies and lots more through your general taxes. This comes to $1.5 Trillion in Federal health care spending per year, or 8% of GDP funded by your taxes. It turns out 8% of GDP is almost exactly what the UK spends on health care in total, including public and private spending. So your taxes to the federal government are paying about the same proportionately that we are for health care here in the UK, and you are also paying thousands of dollars a year for private health care on top. There's no way to spin this, you are getting utterly and completely shafted. As it happens I also get private health care through my employer in the UK, but it only costs me £380 per year because the vast majority of my health care needs are met by the NHS promptly and to an excellent standard. The private top-up care only matters in truly exceptional situations, and even then it's mainly about comfort and maybe bypassing a queue for non-urgent care. Bearing in mind all the care I and my family have received over the years, and the zero stress I have ever had about affording it, I pay my taxes to the NHS with a happy heart.