The first thing I would do is have a thourough review on what health care should cover. Health cste is an unending money pit and as you spend more you less and less of a return on the investment. We need to take a heartless look at the system and decide what we wont and will cover. The focus needs to be value per dollar spent. Its political suicide.
Step 2 on health care is to charge for it based on income. People need to realize that it costs money. So charging up to say $100 per visit based on income should help. Also people need to see the true cost of their treatment and should reviebe copies of their invoices.
I would also implement a processed food sintax of about 10% and cut doctors Salaries.
After that I would raise income tax as required to put all resource revenue in a heritage account.
The big point is that current health expenses are rising faster than revenues so until you get that under control taxes will have to increase indefinately
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