What if instead of taxing the rich to fund health care reform, we had a tax rebate of 1.5 times for every dollar donated. so you donate 10 bucks you get 15 bucks tax rebate on your taxes. The beggining of each fiscal quarter business and people are... allowed to donate money which gets them a tax rebate at the end of the year, now the budget will be anounced ahead of time, that way once that goal is met, bam no more donations. So if you snooze you loose. What this does is gets business's and people wanting to donate fast so they know they get their tax break credit. If the budget is full met, great! If not then there will be not taxing of the rich or going into debt, those on this program will realize that they will have to work wtih limited funds, each participent would get a fair portion. Every participent would also be required to pay a percent of their income, so someone making only 15k would pay say .5 percent, and someone making 28k would also pay just .5 percent.

That would take care of funding, and now its a volunteer basis, not taxed, so those who want to donate for the tax rebate would do so.. and trust me i would be donating for that tax rebate.

Next, the government would ask doctors who have huge student loans to work for a set salary for 5 years in return they would get a portion of their student loan paid off.

I think this would work out much better, but we seriously need to get more doctors and nurses and medical staff trained and hired first.