Yeah, the issue then is how the poor handle this. The whole "1099" thing was sort of cool but I just quit my fourth 1099 job in the last three years as soon as I figured it out they were functionally trying to scam me below minimum wage, but it would be up to me to prove that, so I would be taxed just based on the amount minus expenses, without anyone really taking into account how much time the company was demanding on their contract requirements.

A lot of people are self employed and barely making it, so an 8% mandatory increase is one thing, but then that's on top of a functional 20% tax. Nobody is "increasing the health care cost of others" if they don't use it or pay for it. It's like me blaming people who don't like fish for the increase in the cost of sushi.

So many people tell me about how the co-pay on their health insurance is really equal to the actual cost of what they are getting that they know the rest of the money is a scam or at best, an absurdly topheavy management system.

This is not about making anyone pay for the poor or entitlements, but to cover the upper middle class of health care administration and drug company executives.