Bartender Geek

The biggest gap I see in your plan is that it ignores the question of preventive care, which IMO the government REALLY needs to pay for as a matter of basic collective self-interest. It is a hell of a lot cheaper to pay for routine prenatal care than to pay for the care of a badly premature baby, f'rex, or for routine cholesterol monitoring and medications than for the number of cases of additional bypass surgery that would be unnecessary if the problem was caught early. That isn't even counting the overall social, economic and morale benefits of having as low a needlessly-disabled population as possible. I would go VERY far in having the government pay altogether for regular checkups, tests and maintenance, because people who have to pay for these themselves usually just *won't*, and I think it's so much in our interests as a society to encourage that kind of care to happen that it's worth bribing people to do it by making it free.