Single Payer Health Systems

...other "departments" are paid for too because really, universal medical care is no different in how it should be paid for than any other citizen benefit or national program like the military, or the costs of running government buildings, infrastructure, heck even the postal service.

Do we have a special funding plan for the Secret Service or the supreme courthouse's electric bill or do we just.. pay it.

How about the IRS, is that just paid for out of the National budget that it is responsible for compiling or is there some kind funding scheme I'm unaware of?

I know the president has to pay for his family's regular meals in the whitehouse but how is the cost of his limosine covered?

I'm sure each program expenditure system is different depending on.. something or other, but let's look at all these things for some existing model we could adapt for a medical care program.

Maybe we should start think about breaking it up into different areas of concern? For instance children in the public school system have their portion sent to a healthcare fund from the budget of the school system, employed adults have their portion sent to the fund as a part of their wages, unemployed adults who are not on public assistance (spouse of a worker or wealthy) can choose to pay it out pocket or go without, some kind of crazy arrangement like that.

Or we can be honest with ourselves and stop pretending money is a thing of value and admit it's just a worthless IOU system and just write government checks for it like all those topsecret black ops accounts.

And on another, completely different thought, do we have any idea at all how much the collected taxes, government bond sales, weapons sales, etc., you know, our income, even is? I've never heard a number that reflects the total of how much we actually have to work with for these kinds of things. I know we have a National 'budget' but that refers to how much we spend, not how much we actually GET.

The most important part is that we remove our medical care from the profiteering sector for the obvious reasons that 1. Without billions of profit going into a few shareholder's hands we would immediately save those billions and 2. Profiteers have a legal obligation to benefit their shareholders first and foremost and any medical care program must by definition benefit the patient firstand foremost.