Who gets health subsidies?

Senator Bernie Sanders cites examples of families whose health insurance premiums would increase by as much as $2,000 or even $3,000 without government subsidies. He does not ask why those premiums go up much faster than inflation. Who gets that extra money? One can check the data: profits of health-related corporations are at record highs. So, the subsidies are paid to regular folks, but collected by a bunch of billionaires. The government cannot fund those subsidies by taxing billionaires – taxes paid by those who still can afford to buy health insurance pay for those subsidies. With premiums rising, more of us will soon qualify for subsidies. So, in reality, Senator Sanders advocates for making most of us poorer and the very few already rich even richer.