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Medicare for everyone, except that instead of paying 80% as it does now, pay on a sliding scale from 0% to 100% as costs approach 10% of the individual's income.
Give everyone a Medicare credit card, only good for health care. The individual cardholder would be responsible for the charges until those charges started reaching the level at which the government would begin to pay.
Instead of the government collecting payments, a credit card company would do so, and would be allowed to charge interest and late fees to people who didn't pay right away, just like Visa and MasterCard do now.
No one would need insurance. No one would go bankrupt due to medical costs. Everyone would pay something. There would be no free ride for anyone, but the wealthy would pay more than the poor.
And no huge government bureaucracies would be needed.
You do realize that people on Medicare have paid into the system their entire working career. Why should someone 20 something get the same benefit possibly without paying a cent? Oh right, the wealthy!
I always get a kick out people who think the wealthy should pay for everything from health care to free college and every thing in between....Do you know if you tax the wealthy 100% in this country and they give up all their wealth to the government .....the government could only run for about a week. And then what? Start with the middle class?