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How can we create a universal health care plan without creating a deficit??


How can we create a universal health care plan without creating a deficit??

Raise taxes. The deficit we're faced with now is going to have to be paid somehow. Let me ask... Is it better to fund war or health care? If the money spent on this war had been invested in health care do you think there would be a need for your question? Insurance companies contribute large sums to political "friends".

Well we seem to cope in the UK and if anyone else can run such a large free health care service, I'd like to see them try. God Bless the UK. Hurrah for the national health

Only allow each person one doctor visit a year and have huge waiting lists for everything.

There will have to be limits set or the costs will skyrocket.

Well if we shoot everyone then that ought to do the trick. No matter what you will create a deficit because someone has to pay for it. Does you really want to know how can we get a free medical program that no one pays for.

Make people start getting jobs and off of welfare.

By creating a good plan for low-income earners and then working with businesses and group health insurance plans by offering subsidies and federal regulations.

You can't. If you're receiving a product and not paying the market value for it, then, someone else is paying for it.
A deficit would be created because that other person would have to lend the money to you and you would need to pay back both principal and interest.
The government would be subsidizing your costs. The problem is that the government has no money. The money that the government spends, it takes from the people...therefore higher taxes. When the government spends more than it takes from you, it borrows it. Then your taxes are increased to pay the additional debt.
You see, even though the concept of healthcare for all has a nice emotional sound to it ...There really is no free lunch.

We can't. That's one of the major flaws.

We already have a universal health care plan, but it's about the worst one we could have. We already spend tons of public money to cover emergency room costs incurred by people who can't pay their bills, and emergency rooms cost a lot more money than non-emergency care, and preventative care could be even cheaper. Furthermore, we already have a single-payer plan in place that is only available to a small percentage of the population: Medicare. Medicare operates with only 1-2% overhead, compared to private insurance companies which require 15-30% of their revenues go to overhead costs. Simply adding everyone onto the Medicare plan would save us money over what we are spending now, and everyone who is currently unable to get medical care because they are uninsured or under-insured would have access.
Furthermore, this plan would save employers from having to contribute such huge sums to private insurance plans, so if necessary, we could add a small tax on companies based on number of employees, which would still be far cheaper than what they are paying now (and companies wouldn't have to maintain a staff simply to keep up with their health plans, so HR departments would get smaller, saving some companies even more).

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