US Universal Healthcare: How are we going to pay for it?

[Kasz216]

Squilliam said:

Kasz216 said:

Squilliam said:
They could always use the increased GDP and tax revenue from that with the millions of Americans who cannot get health care now becoming more productive citizens.

Seems unlikely.

The US is already the most productive country in the world... if anything it may end up decreasing productivity.

How so? The productivity figure is an average of the total productivity in the entire population. Increasing the average would increase the total.

Having universal healthcare may decrease the average productivity of the entire population by decreasing peoples drive to work hard.

Americans are top of the charts in everything productivity wise more or less.  Lack of socialism may be a reason.

More people are overtreated rather then undertreated in the US. 

It's one of the reasons we spend too much on healthcare.