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The weird thing about asking "how we will pay for" universal healthcare is that the question is almost incoherent. We already have enough doctors, hospital, medicine, etc to take care of everyone. It is already getting paid for, now. Some people are just denied access to it.
This is in contrast to say, asking how we would pay for a high speed rail from New York to LA. You see…we don't have one. We'd have to redirect 1000s of engineers, laborers, and natural resources to build it. In other words, we'd have to ask what we'd give up in order to do it.
But we wouldn't have to give up anything to do Universal Healthcare, because we already have the hospitals. The doctors are already getting paid. We just have to stop denying care to poor people, and change the bureaucracy of how the money is gathered from insurance to taxes.
We pay for it by cutting out the insurance companies who are scheming off the top. We likely would need some more doctors and nurses, if everybody had insurance. However, maybe not as many specialist if people got preventive care before getting treated for heart attack in ER.
w.r.t. preventive. In ER with my dad, they put into the next bed a heavy set women having full blown heart attack. She'd been having chest pains for months, hadn't gone to doc cause lacked insurance. To far gone, they couldn't ship her off to county. Hosp. had to eat the cost.
Its ridiculous for another reason: the US government pays more per capita for healthcare under this mostly private system than the UK does for a fully-universal NHS. Adopting the NHS model would *save* money.
Yes, the theory I've heard is that by having a monopoly on medical purchasing power, the NHS is in a strong negotiating position to prevent drug companies from setting ridiculous prices. USA does not have that protection and pays more for the same drugs.
I am more scared of the lack of access to doctors because of the cost to see one... I had a really bad spider bite that I treated with a home remedy that worked great!! Everyone around me is now wanting the recipe, yet I always tell people to see the doctor!! I live in the US?!?!
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