Pay the extra taxes and get nothing for it. You can't throw tax money at a problem and imagine it solved. That has never worked and will never work. Have you ever noticed that, in all these countries, with so called medical freebess, there are never wheel chairs on the streets? Never have handicap parking? Never have vans for transportation? It is because those who are handicaped are left with zero resources. Loose a leg to diabeties, which most people have diabeties. Have a parent loose a leg because of a work accident. See how much you will love the free medical concept! You could wait years for an artifical limb; which will probably be a used one.
America works because America works. When you stop achieving, and expect your next door neighbor to pay your way, because some one has to pay, it is not free, the country you love will no longer exist!
When you and your neighbor start paying for all the free medical care the useless will soon demand, then you will begin following the rules currently being drafted in England. They are going to determine what you can eat and how much you can weigh, and what kind of physical exercise program you must participate in. Violate the rukles and you loose your benfits. Sounds like Communist China? This all effects your health and they are paying for your health maintenance, thus they control the money - he who controls the money makes the rules. Ready for that? Better be! Once you place a government official in charge of your life, your life will never be the same.
People in England spend hours in ambulances, because of the line into the hospital. There is a rukle in England that once you enter the hospital, you must be takencare of within a specified amount of time; I think it is four hours. So they make you wait outside until they can comply with the law. Those needing legs or arms wait years for a cheap replacement, sometime never getting them. People in Canada drive acroos the border every day and pay for superior care - because it is not available in Canada. The leaders and rich in other country's come here for health care, because it is useless in a free health care society.
Our medical advantage is the result of one thing - profits to the investors Your food is superior because the growers make a profit. The cars are superior because the company makes a profit. The medicine is superior because the drug company's make a profit. Take that away and you will soon run out of inovation. Why try to be the best in your field when everything you make will be taken away from you. Let some one cut your salary by 50% and see how dedicated you will be. Reduce a Nurses salary by 50% and see if you want her passing our your medicine!
History has proven, raising taxes to turn a business over to the government is a glory idea and a useless effort. They all go broke, and taxes keep gong up. The more freebees in life, the longer the line for the freebies. Those who are takers don't care who pays for the items they get, it is free to them. If the number can increase it will. Medicare, Social Security, and Welfare are all great concepts and all are failures. If we are running out of money to support the current entitlements, and have to raise the taxes to pay for them, imagine how much more the price will be when every single person who wants it, can get it free. The are supposedly 40 million illegal aliens in this country. Lets make then legal and gibe themm free access to every thig they want. That plus the millions who now scrounge everything they can and you will be number 12 million, four hundred thousand in line for your dental appointment!
The select pay and the masses grab as much as they can. A retired person can't get into a Social Security office because of the number of 20 and 30 years olds applying for disability. Great concept, failed implementation. Nothing is free, unless your are a member of the U.S. Congress.