Yeah so that's an option to increase taxes and that does solve how we fund it. We would need to increase taxes more than that, and we probably need to increase middle class taxes to do it. We also would probably have to pay doctors less, which means we'll have created some loan issues. Again, we could pay those, but the money has to come from somewhere, so we'd be taxing the middle class to pay for medical loans for doctors, while also taxing them to pay the doctors.

That doesn't necessarily solve equality of care. Do we pay hospitals equally? Based on patients treated? Based on what is treated? Is getting treated for cancer in Beaumont, Texas the same as being treated for cancer in Cambridge? What about hospitals with poor outcomes - especially if those hospitals mainly serve minority populations?

This is an extremely complicated issue with a lot of side effects and at the end of the day you're going to treat one group or another unfairly to resolve it - and the group that is likely going to get the short end of the stick is the middle class who provides the bulk of tax revenue.