[who_would_fardels_bear]

"I paid my taxes for the service and now I need the service."

Since when has there ever been a direct relation between a tax on taxpayers and the services claimed to be supported by that tax?

Does our gasoline tax only go to keeping up the road system? Do our Social Security and Medicare taxes only go to SS and Medicare payments?

The whole system is a fustercluck. I'm proposing to simplify it considerably. Why is that not a good, conservative idea?

And sorry for assuming something in what you wrote that you didn't write.

[votemout]

Nevertheless, many people see taxes as insurance. Medicaid is there and if they qualify, they want it. Also like insurance it is paid by us collectively and not everyone uses it.

In Cal, gas tax is earmarked for transportation, but not used for it. Social security goes into the general fund for all I know. Doesn't impact what people pay in taxes and what they expect from the program.

[HiTech RedNeck]

90% of the problem is not the idea of insurance per se, but insurance companies co-opting the legislative process to make meaningful competition nearly impossible.

Your Seven Point Plan (sounds like something out of China) would agree with the modern insurance cabal in prohibiting proven-successful doctor’s office arrangements where, for a fixed monthly fee the doctor will treat anything in his office that can be treated in an office. (If you need a hospital that is a different affair.) Real world data shows that this has not resulted in a surge of malingerers.