Reply #43: Not opt-OUT, but opt-UP. Universal health will NOT be paid with flat fees...

[FormerDittoHead]

A universal healthcare program will most probably be tacked on to our income taxes.

I would not favor any other plan, such as a national sales tax, or some flat amount "head" tax which would mean everyone would pay the same amount... That would mean, AGAIN, that the lower classes would pay the highest amounts as a percentage of their incomes...

This being the case, those who make the most would most probably pay more (as an amount, not necessarily as a percentage) for their universal healthcare than most.

There can be no "opt-out" option, but there can certainly be an "opt-UP" option...

The ONLY way the thing to work in ANY case is if you allow people to 1) still PAY the cost of the universal coverage but then, OK, they have to right to PAY MORE for whatever premium coverage / service they want.

We would NEED to have such an "added" option for elective / cosmetic surgery as well as elective things such as so much dental work is (like caps or whitening), private duty nurses, etc.

...but the point is that NO ONE gets to opt-OUT.