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Create a National Health Insurance System as Next Stimulus

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We could scrap all current government-funded health insurance and health care and institute a self-sustaining National Health Insurance covering all citizens and paid for by all citizens, in part - with a National Sales Tax. This would be an immediate shot in the arm for American industry and business, as well as provide a new flexibility for American workers. No American should have to depend on anyone else for their health insurance. It makes sense. The only way to ensure all Americans are insured is to insure all Americans. I have a viable plan based on a 4% National Sales Tax, a 3% payroll tax and a 4% corporate EBITA tax. This would fully fund our health insurance needs - $5000+ per capita indemnity - and insurance companies who suffer economic damage can be compensated with health trust money and through eminent domain arbitration. The day after a self-supporting National Health Insurance plan is put into place, the federal budget will be closer to balance as well as many states. P.S. as part of this plan, everybody will have to pay reasonable but mandatory copays, even the "poor".

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Submitted by Community Member 2 years ago

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  1. Community Member

    Wow, you are one the idea “machines” on this board! 20 suggestions in just about a week. Awesome, who would have thought that someone with the National Weather Service in Buffalo would have so many great suggestions like “Creating a National Hydrogen Supply” for an economic revival, “Getting Fat People off SSDI”. I am also all for your suggestion to ban all tolls within “10 miles of any bridge or significant incline/decline”. I was kind of a “eureka” moment for me when I read that because I was thinking to myself about all the cars that sit in line to pay a toll at a bridge especially after they just drove up hill. The gas savings alone if you didn’t have to wait in line would be huge. I am not sure how much money we would save by moving agencies to the Midwest like you also suggested, I think it would cost a lot of money to do that. Anyway, good to see that there are great minds at work in Buffalo. Good luck!

    2 years ago
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  2. Community Member

    I think this is a crazy idea. Nevermind that the government can't seem to come together on anything, but have them run Healthcare? That's a Nightmare.

    On top of it you want to fund it by creating a National %4 Tax on top of the Income Tax (which the government loves to waste) and the Social Security Tax (which again the government just spends like its someone else's money - Oh wait it is).

    There are better ways of doing this than Tax the people more on program which would serve no one and which would be a massive waste of money.

    2 years ago
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  3. Community Member

    Isn't the GOP already in the process of overturning the viable national healthcare initiative pushed through by Obama? It must have been a long, cold, lonely winter back there in Buffalo at the Weather service. You definately have Cabin Fever with all these "ideas" spinning in your head.

    2 years ago
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  4. Community Member

    There are only two ways to ensure all Americans are insured. You can either force businesses and people to buy insurance like they ar trying now, or simply insure everybody. Government already subsidizes over half the total health care spending in this country, but has no control. A National Health Insurance is the only rational, affordable way to insure everyone. If, however, you believe we are better off with a partially insured population then a national Health Insurance wouldn't be for you. I'm pretty sure having everyone insured and with everyone sharing the costs accordingly, would be better for the economy, workers and employers alike. I'm saying the most cost-effective way to deal with the entire population's health care needs is one single, gigantic cooperative - all of us.

    2 years ago
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  5. Community Member

    Between medicaid, CHIP, employers and medicare, we already have almost everyone insured, it is just a matter of where are the tax dollars coming from. Medicaid, if done on an emergency basis, means folks use ER rooms as a doctor's office in many cases, going there for a flu or cold instead of a doctor's office because the hospital does the Medicaid paperwork. I once worked in private industry in the early 1990s for a company that made a commission working with people who either due to limited mobility, limited language or reading proficiency or, in a few cases, an entitlement complex, did not complete medicaid paperwork unless someone literally filled out the forms for them and drove them to their appts. I don't agree with the sales tax, not sure I agree with national plan but find it difficult to understand how people miss out on priority number one with healthcare. we have to control the spiraling costs. Any ideas on how to control costs. TORT REFORM is a must!

    2 years ago
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  6. Community Member

    There's only one effective, doable way to ensure everyone is insured. Insure everyone. We start with $5000 per year per capita indemnity; set priorities; and take control. Viagara doesn't have to be covered. This $5000 per capita indemnity can be achieved with a 4% National Sales TAx; a 3% payroll tax; and a 4% tax on earnings for business adn industry. Effective, efficient and affordable; in fact self-sustaining.

    2 years ago
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