I may have had a change of heart about universal health care, i.e., government funded health care for people who can’t afford it.
Herewith, my modest policy proposal:
In order to be fair to the taxpayers who are going to fund this health care program for the uninsured, we need to be sure that only people who have no other option are going to get healthcare on the public dime. For that reason, a simple means test will be employed, to make sure that people who want government funded health care are people who couldn’t possibly afford the coverage themselves, and who are not simply operating with other financial priorities that use the money they could have spent on health insurance.
As a simple assessment philosophy, I propose that to qualify a person must prove they can only afford to live at or below the common living standard of the middle class in 1948, with no excess cash left over for frills. No one in the middle class of the USA in 1948 was “poor” by any sane standard, nor should they be considered so now.
