No, there is a "nearly free" lunch if you are a multinational corporation or an executive attached to one.
The REAL average tax rate of fortune 500 companies is 13%. That's what Mitt Romney pays -- well, the income we KNOW about.
The last stat I looked at showed that the government paid around 52% of all medical expenses. And administrative costs at hospitals were around 42%.
What should we learn from this? In the US our cost is about twice to four times as much for healthcare as other civilized countries. More than half of this money is just going into the pockets of insurance companies, drug companies (charging more here than they do abroad and drugs that cost pennies to cows cost dollars to humans). HMOs and Hospitals. There are middle men in the equation.
The blame is getting spread around, but it's all about who gets the money. And it isn't the doctors or the patients -- the people actually involved.
We already have paid more than enough for Universal Health care, but there are corporations and wealthy that have removed their money from the system and there are fat cats making the money and getting us to look to blame the wrong parites. Why would they want to SOLVE this situation -- the FREE LUNCH is working out great for a lot of people with a lot of money.