""In the U.S., disposable income calculation includes health insurance premiums as a deduction, but only if they are deducted from your paycheck as part of your employment benefits. "
That the economists have to model our health care costs as a visit from the tax man, when the actual collector of our health care costs is Wall Street, is ------- crazy.
Shows how broken our system is.
In the United States, if you don't have health care, you don't pay that "tax."
And your proportional share of disposable household income goes up.
Congratulations, you are slightly richer than your European counterparts, until you get sick!
"The one where the president gets assassinated"
Four out of Forty-Seven Presidents have been assassinated.
Thanks, Second Amendment!