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I suggest that to go to universal health care we need to eliminate both the Medicare and Medicaid systems as they will no longer be needed. Instead of changing the income tax, we would use the present Medicare tax system to raise the funds for the new health care system. Instead though of stopping the tax at the present cap of just over 132 thousand dollars, it would eliminate the cap altogether and would be progressive and include all forms of income including capital gains. The use of a progressive tax could meet the needs of the program. THis would also help reduce the deficit as the general income tax would no longer have to cover the cost of the Medicaid program.