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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Lane3 who wrote (4791)2/22/2008 4:58:52 PM
From: Mary Cluney  Read Replies (2) of 42652
 
<<<I'm trying to find some way to communicate to you that we're talking about the middle, not the bottom. So I did some research and found that only a little more than the top ten percent of taxpayers--AGI upwards of 90K--currently pay enough in tax to cover their own health care and nothing else. That would be the situation were we to fund universal coverage from the general fund. That's all the bottom, middle, and some of the top. That would make nearly ninety percent of us free riders. How could you possibly expect democracy to stand up against that. >>>

Nice work.

Did you also notice that the top 10% earn more than the rest of the population combined. They have to be congratulated. Many of them probably worked hard and earned every penny.

You ask: How do we pay for a universal health care system?

1. First of all, there has to be a mandate that everyone gets health insurance. Otherwise, it will not work.

2. It is paid for by a combination of means, including:

(a)payroll deductions (funded by both employers and employees)
(b) regulating the supply and prices of healthcare services in the country to keep costs in check
(c) eliminating waste and inefficiencies in administration and billing
(d)government subsidies funded from the top ten percent of the economic ladder.
(e) also insuring that the Tim and Peters of this county have access to suplemental privately funded (self pay) gold plated health insurance.

FWIW that is just what I think on a very broad brush basis.
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