From the Pacific Research Institute:
In 2005, Americans contributed $48 billion to health and social services via individual donations, as well as through foundations and corporations.
Philanthropic giving is insensitive to tax rates, constantly hovering around two percent of income for the last half century.
However, income is extremely sensitive to tax rates, ...
From Paul Starr's The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The rise of a sovereign profession and the making of a vast industry (Basic Books, New York. 1982. P. 235).
"Whoever provides medical care or pays the costs of illness stands to gain the gratitude and good will of the sick ...
In his review of John E. Murray's Origins of American Health Insurance: A History of Industrial Sickness Funds, George C. Leef writes:
Murray points to an important subtext in the Progressive case. One reason Bismarck had worked so hard for his system of social insurance in Germany was to make people ...
