Your friend is paying it today in insurance premiums. Same money, just a different line on the paycheck.
And then if he gets sick, he’ll pay again.
Our willingness in America to pay money to a company that is incentivized by profits, just to not pay taxes is astonishing.
I suddenly developed a theory that GPT and the like are popular because people don’t know how to craft a google (the noun not the company) search.