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It’s not ‘the rich’ paying in that case. It’s ‘the majority’.

If it's paid for by income tax, people with high income will pay proportionately more. High income people tend to be rich.

But those with high income are very outnumbered. Most of people are not rich and most of the taxes come from them. You get way more money from taxing 20% all working class families than from taxing 50% the wealthiest ones.

My point is, healthcare is being funded by everybody who works (also everybody who consumes, as you have to pay VAT) not only the rich.

I get your point but people with high income are paying proportionately more than people with lower income. In some sense this is a subsidy.

This becomes even more pronounced if you take into account who is using the health care system as low income tends to be tied with bad health (diabetes, smoking related issues, hard physical labour, etc).

Note that I'm not saying this is wrong. Broadest shoulders should bear the largest burdens.

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