28 Percent of Federal Taxes Go To Health Care

By Filed under Health Care Costs on April 16, 2015 with 2 comments

27.49 percent, actually. Weekly Standard’s Jeryl Bier used the White House’s own calculator to figure this out. The trend is not our friend:

In 2010, the year Obamacare passed and was signed into law, the healthcare percentage was 24.10. The following year, 2011, it dropped to 23.7 percent, and in 2012 dropped still further to 22.45 percent. After this, however, the trend sharply reversed. In 2013 the healthcare share jumped to 25.19 percent, and the latest numbers posted this week for 2014 show the highest proportion yet at 27.49 percent, a full 22 percent increase over 2012.

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  1. Floccina says:
    April 16, 2015 at 8:47 pm

    Lower that I thought, does that include federal employee’s heath insurance?

    • John R. Graham says:
      April 17, 2015 at 9:36 am

      Thank you. I am pretty sure it does not include federal employees’ or retirees’ health costs. Those are surely allocated among their departments along with their wages.