If healthcare is so important then it shouldn't be taxed in any fashion. From bandaids and cough syrup at the pharmacy on up, if it's essential to human life it shouldn't be taxed.
We’d need to collect tons of taxes just to pay for the bureaucracy needed to not tax anything considered essential to human life.
If we'd just provide health care free at the point of service, we wouldn't have to worry about the taxes.
I agree, but so is food. Good luck convincing the govt to draw that line.
First 2000 calories, tax free! (Once everything is cashless they'll know exactly what you're eating anyway.)
If it didn't imply giving the government so much information, that would actually be a great program.
Free meal replacement by mail. Huel, Soylent etc. ;)
In the US most states (37/50) don’t have sales tax on groceries. Also food bought with SNAP benefits (food stamps) is exempt from sales tax in all states.
Left that out for brevity, but good point. I suppose I'm trying to highlight that you could categorize a lot of things as essential (see the last two years.)