More on the health care problem?

Question

I asked earlier about ideas for solving the health care problem in the USA. Some one suggested a free national health care program.
Free national health care is not free. Currently, health care cost makes up about 17% of the GNP. Current levels of government spending totals about 7% of the GNP.
A national health care plan would increase government spending to 24% of the GNP. That would require a tax rate 4 times higher than the current rate. That doesn't seem like a sensible solution to me.
Anymore thoughts on the issue?

Answer 1

Good work on the math and on seeing the truth. Government run health care would not be able to exclude anyone because of the need to be PC. Why would we want a system that would give health care to people who refuse to work and therefore do not pay into it? Why would we want to have a government who can't even agree to disagree with each other trying to make sure we are covered in an emergency. If you remember just a few years ago the congress could not get a budget passed so funding for allot of programs was stopped until they could make up there minds how to distribute funds. How would you feel if it was your health care that was not funded when you needed it the most? There are so many problems with the government getting their hands in the health care that it is not even funny. Look at social security as evidence.

Answer 2

I don't know what the republican plan. But it has been decades since we had a "free market" system. There was a time when insurance only paid for catastrophic events. Normal, routine stuff was paid for out of pocket. Most doctors collected their fee before they saw you. The prices were reasonable. Think about this. With plastic surgery, lasik eye surgery, and other procedures that insurance doesn't cover the prices on these procedures is going down, not up like everything else. Sailorjohn, I get $200 a week taken out of my paycheck for health care insurance premiums. That's 25% of my total pay.