So just redistributing the cost across the population? I think then you just end up with more people in debt, as their incomes fall to pay the tax.

I think you just end up with less people in debt and incomes rise to pay the tax. I guess we'll just have to try it out and see.

except that you redistribute according to means, seeing as tax is correlated to income. so instead of having a random dice roll ("ah, you're working multiple low-hour jobs and you just got cancer? game over!"), you pay a bit more of your income as tax

I'll take the random dice roll and my tax money.

> which every other developed country (and a lot of undeveloped countries) in the world manages to do.

Where doctors also make much more modest salaries

Where? Not in my country, they do very well here in the public system…

> Where doctors also make much more modest salaries

I would say that they are "less high", but not "modest", given that the cost of life is also lower.

Also you have to factor in that they don't have to sell their house if they get cancer.

So does everybody else.