Idea by: Anonymous
Idea Title: Free Healthcare, practically speaking
Idea:
In fiscal year 2024, the U.S. government spent around $1.7 trillion of its budget on health insurance. That’s a pretty big number. I don’t see why gradually, through the span of a decade, we can use part of this budget to give categorical grants to the states, requiring them to use this money to grant all of their citizens free healthcare. If you do $1.7 trillion times 10, you get $17 trillion. Obviously this budget for healthcare will probably go down severely because of the Republicans’ cut down on Medicare, but let’s just say it is $10 trillion over a decade. Here would be my plan: Each year, we give a categorical grant for free healthcare of $200 billion each for 5 states per year, in order to transition to free healthcare. Obviously more money would be needed to given to states with a higher population, so this number would fluctuate a lot per state. This means that at the end of the decade, $10 trillion dollars will be spent on this transition to Free Healthcare. This is my plan.