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It's a simple task to model a tax-funded healthcare system as an insured system (with monopsony), where the government is the insuror and the taxes that are directed to the are the premium. (And since the government is the sole payor in the system, it can unilaterally set the prices).



> It's a simple task to model a tax-funded healthcare system as an insured system (with monopsony), where the government is the insuror and the taxes that are directed to the are the premium

Unless you're proposing that taxes are based on risk levels, rather than realized income, then what. you are proposing is neither a simple task nor a true insurance model.

If that's what you're proposing, then it's an interesting thought experiment, but not one that applies to anything currently practiced anywhere in the world - and it's also something that would raise a lot of ethical objections.




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