How to fix the ACA: Create a default govt. health insurance plan--The Public Option

[Yavin4]

If any American cannot get an affordable plan or does not qualify for Medicaid, then they can buy the Public Option which would also be supported by a small federal sales tax on non-essential goods and services. Food, housing, education, some forms of energy, healthcare, clothing would be excluded from the federal sales tax. Sales taxes on alcohol, cigarettes, and sugar would be levied higher.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Good step in the right direction.

Of course what we should do is exactly what Canada does.

It is rather simple.

And physicians who insist on making $1 million a year instead of the $500K they will make in the new system, can leave if they want.

If anything GP's are underpaid, but specialists are overpaid probably. And hospitals, of course there should only be for profit hospitals for rich people who want private rooms and so on. ALL hospitals otherwise have to be owned by the system.