https://marco.org/2007/07/08/the-us-taxpayer-already-foots-the-bill-for-the
The US taxpayer already foots the bill for the bulk of all health care expenditures in this country. A seminal Harvard Medical School study shows that, in 1999, the US taxpayer shouldered the burden for just under 60 percent of all health care costs nationwide. That percentage represented $2,604 per capita at the time, which means government spending on health care in the US is higher than total per capita health care expenditures in any other country — including those with single-payer, universal access national health care systems. So we’re paying for national health care; we’re just not getting it.
— Warren Pease (thanks AZspot)