It would be nice if there were enough rich people, or enough rich + middle class people, to just tax them to pay for health care reform, but there aren't enough: take a look at our declining tax revenues and declining birthrate and extrapolate into the future. So I have a different proposal:
Have a national referendum on the topic of health care reform, and keep track of who votes "yes". Tax those people extra, and divide up the proceeds into health care vouchers to distribute to everyone.
It won't pay for gold plated braces, but people need reform now, right?
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I had an alternate thought this morning, about how to fix health care: Don't.
ReplyDeleteIt's not that the current system isn't broken; it is.
It's not that the current system can continue, because soon there won't be anyone that can afford it, and it will crash anyway*.
So let the system crash, and the Insurance companies flounder and fail for lack of customers. An alternate system will arise, because there will be nothing else.
I'm not saying this is a good idea. In fact I'm fairly sure there would be a lot of real harm done before the a new system could work itself out. It's an open market solution though, which is what some people seem to want.
* Analogous to the stock market crash, some people/industries have been profiting from health care at an unsustainable rate. The bubble will burst, it is just a matter of when.