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.
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.
