The Question Of How To Pay For Medicare For All Answered

The Question Of How To Pay For Medicare For All Answered...and it's a simple answer.

Citizens of the U.S. are petitioning their government for fully paid healthcare so that when they get sick they don't have to worry about being able to pay the doctor.  Americans pay a lot more for medical care than most other nations and because healthcare is a for profit industry in the U.S. treating sickness is a means to making a few people very wealthy.  At this point in time both the Republican and Democratic Parties are officially opposed to helping Americans with this very real problem.  Smug politicians, Republican and Democrat alike, ask: "How are we going to pay for it?" with a  grin on their face and a donation in their treasury.

That's the logic that rules the day for Establishment politicians but it is not the logic one would find in a democratic republic.  If we were to consider the United States to be a democratic republic we could put forth the following argument and have the answer to where the money is going to come from to pay for Medicare for all.

Let's begin logically solving this problem from a small 'd' democratic point of view. 

To begin all the funds the government has to spend comes from taxes.  A democratic solution would reason this way.

1.  The taxpayers pay for everything the government decides to do.

2.  Medicare for all, as Bernie Sanders is promoting, could legitimately be understood as the taxpayers deciding to give everyone in society a really nice gift.

Do you see how the solution is apparent when it is  remembered the U.S. is a democratic republic that should be of some tangible benefit to those who invest it with authority to govern. So why won't we the People give ourselves this gift from the tax revenue we alone have contributed?  Ask yourself why we haven't made good use of the democratic principles inherent in our form of government.  You can readily see how those principles provide the answer to how to pay for Medicare for all. If we change our minds and begin thinking like small'd' democrats there is no limit to how many improvements can be made to society.

The reality of course is that the majority of Republican and Democratic lawmakers have given their allegiance to a class of non-voting, non-citizen donors who profit from disease and injuries whether there's peace or war.  The initiative to replace these worthless political hacks with people centered Progressive lawmakers is beginning already.  There's no reason conducive to a democratic republic that could argue against the idea of the taxpayers in a democratic republic themselves simply deciding to gift their fellow citizens with complete fully paid healthcare from the revenues of their own tax money.  In a democratic situation the people have the authority to make that decision.

So if we begin to talk about Medicare for all as if "Hey, it's our money, let's do it." enough minds might be changed to make it happen.  It just makes sense to look at it that way.

So how do you pay for Medicare for all?  Just start thinking and talking as if this were a democratic republic instead of a corporately owned business opportunity for a few filthy rich nere do wells. If you do that you can change the world.