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How to go to universal health care without raising income taxes

independentusa

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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.
 
There's no healthcare system in the world, UHC or otherwise that costs anywhere near what ours does per capita and many of them rank higher than us in quality of care, healthcare outcomes, life expectancy, percentage of the population served and numerous other metrics.

The "how are we going to pay for it??" trope was created by conservatives because they're dishonest and have an agenda.
 
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