I guess they are hoping Trumps attacks on Medicaid are a one time event as well?

Totally I agree the US healthcare system looks to be a tragic mess of chronic embedded cronys lobbying to maintain their rentseeking.

Within that terrible political dysfunction a one off tax on the rich seems like a viable option!

I pity the doctors, nurses and workers in the US system where money seems to trump the hypocratic oath.

Also agree a mixed model where you have decent free universal healthcare along with some private provision for those who can afford it is a reasonable balanced way to go although it leaves a tension between the two and lobbying by the private health providers to cut into the public system.