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Is there any way for free college and free health care to be provided to every US citizen without increasing taxes? If yes, how can that be done? If no, how high do the taxes have to be for each income group?Since you posted this question in the US Healthcare Policy Space, I can respond to the healthcare part of your question. Education is unrelated to Universal Heathcare Coverage (UHC), with the exception of medical education which is addressed below.I am also citing an article that explains an overview of UHC, and pros and cons. [1]Hearings on numerous proposed healthcare bills were held in Congress on Tuesday, April 30, 2019, before the House Rules Committee, and they will also be held by the House Ways and Means Committee.[2] [3]There are a few facts to keep in mind, so let me divide my answer into parts because this is extremely complex.Part I: Basic FactsThere are numerous bills (at least 8 proposals) being looked at ranging from an all-encompassing bill that includes practically every type of service needed such as vision, dental, mental health, and even long term care assistance, to other proposals that are massively scaled back and essentially maintain the current system but offer public Medicare buy in options, and everything in between. The Kaiser Family Foundation is keeping track of all of bills and offering side by side comparisons.[4]Moving to universal healthcare coverage in the US will be disruptive no matter what system we put in place. CBO (Congressional Budget Office) is warning us about this.[5] It's like building a new construction house because our old house is in utter disrepair. Putting on a new roof might not be as disruptive, but if we want to fix the guts of the house, we need much more in-depth construction. The question is whether we can save any of the old house, or if we need to tear it down.The current trajectory of projected healthcare costs with our current system are unsustainable. Almost everyone agrees on this point.[6] “The U.S. currently devotes 18 percent of our economy to healthcare, and that number is on the rise. Such a large proportion of resources devoted to healthcare makes it increasingly difficult to invest in other sectors of our economy.” The graph below is from 2015. We are currently spending over $11,000 per capita in 2019. In 2015, we ranked #28 in the world, and now we rank lower. Here is an extensive article from Kaiser Family Foundation in the US Healthcare World Ranking. [7]The majority of Americans want universal healthcare coverage. [8] Healthcare is the #1 most important issue.Part II: The Real Story On Costs:The hearings on a national healthcare plan are the beginning of the discussion on how to deliver healthcare, not the end.I encourage people to participate in the conversation because we are all in this together and it will take a while to implement any solutions.There are many stakeholders, the largest of which is a $300MM-500MM annual healthcare lobby, that for obvious reasons is committed to a disinformation campaign against universal heathcare coverage. [9] [10] [11]In 2018, the US Healthcare industry spent $500MM lobbying Congress to own politicians, write laws, and maintain the status quo.So far, only one bill, the all-encompassing Medicare For All bill (proposed by Bernie Sanders) has been analyzed by a Koch Brothers-funded conservative think tank, Mercatus.CBO was unable to score any of the proposed bills because there are still too many questions regarding costs and implementation.CBO put out a chart that lays out the questions that need to be answered before they can estimate costs for the various proposals.[12]Charles Blahous, the economist for the Mercatus Center, looked at Bernie Sanders Medicare For All plan and concluded that we are more or less spending all of the same money on healthcare now.The increase in federal spending would be dramatic but, as Republican witness Charles Blahous of the Mercatus Institute acknowledged at the hearing, much of that would just be a shift from the private sector to the public. People would pay taxes instead of health insurance premiums and existing federal funding for Medicare, Medicaid, and Obamacare would be repurposed for the national health plan.[13]This difference is in shifting the costs to within a single payer system, administered by government, from an outside payer system adminstered by insurance companies.In addition, though the costs are more equivalent today, in long term, we will yield savings, even when moving to an all encompassing plan.Remember, when single payer comes into play, all current insurance premiums, co-pays, deductibles, and annual caps go away. So, we are spending the same money differently, through tax funding, than premium funding.In conclusion, it is extremely fair to say that long term costs will go down with universal heathcare coverage, and everyone will be covered.The key is that rates must be negotiated on behalf of all Americans. We must have single disclosed pricing for drugs and procedures.This does NOT mean that government must be the sole payer; it just means that government can't be banned from negotiating rates for drugs and medical procedures, on behalf of all Americans. In fact, they MUST be negotiating lower pricing!Part III: Other ConsiderationsWill UHC compromise or enhance the quality of healthcare?Is there concern over a medical provider shortage?How will we handle the transition?Should ESI be eliminated?Each on of these questions deserves an answer in itself. In fact, many of these questions have been proposed and answered.I will try to add some thoughtful comments.Quality: All healthcare is triaged. The term “ration” is used as a scare tactic. The appropriate term is in our current system care is triaged. If you go to the emergency room now, you are called in order of emergency. If your condition becomes emergent, your care is prioritized or additional resources are called in. This is exactly what will happen with universal healthcare coverage. In fact, a credible argument can be made that if we insured everyone in the US, we would have more appropriate use of the ER, and remove people out of the triage list who shouldn't be there OR would never end up there with preventative care. This also saves a ton of money by off loading ER costs to the everyday clinics. This prevents cost shifting for uninsured being added to insureds premiums. In addition, UHC prevents the spread of infectious disease. [14]Doctor Shortages: This issue also impacts the quality of care issue because without UHC in the US, we are facing a critical shortage of doctors. There are several reasons for this. In addition to an aging population, the American Medical Association lobbied US Congress for decades to limit the amount of residency slots available for doctors in order to create an artificial shortage to maintain high salaries. They wanted doctors to be perceived as a nobler practice so that Americans would pay higher salaries. This has led to a profound shortage. To add insult to injury, the cost of medical school has become so expensive that those who decide to take on the cost have often bypassed internal medicine and moved to specialty positions because they often pay double or triple the salary and the debt can be paid off more quickly. Ironically, independent of any discussion of UHC, the AMA is now lobbying to add to the number of residency positions to reduce the shortage, and private foundations are now paying the full cost of medical school for students who qualify to get admitted. [15] [16] [17] Finally, hospitals are now hiring thousands of foreign doctors, who have already completed residency, in order to properly staff the doctor positions. So, this scarcity of doctors is being actively addressed and it will likely be substantially reduced by the time any UHC is out into place. [18][19]The net effect of AMA-type restrictions hasn’t been to make better quality doctors available to more people, but to reduce existing options, especially in rural and other under-served areas.Transition Issues: It is very unlikely that the US will move lock, stock and barrel to UHC without a carefully planned transition process. For example, an age based transition has been proposed over a number of years, even under the very generous Bernie Sanders plan. It starts with reducing the age to have Medicare from 50 to 64 years, and downwards, and children get added as well. While I personally believe that ESI is a form of indentured servantry, it is unlikely that ESI will transition to UHC in one swoop. I will further address ESI in my last point.ESI Employer Sponsored Insurance: ESI is an invention created in the aftermath of WWII. [20] It is an artifact of history that no other country has.The problem with ESI is threefold:It forces an employee to take less in salary in exchange for healthcare benefits. Instead, every year during open enrollment, the employer decides which hospitals and doctors are in network and out of network, what the new premiums and co-pays are, the annual caps, and new uncovered drugs and services.The employee is unable to leave the employer because they are tied to their healthcare. They can't guarantee that they will match their benefits or have the same doctors or hospitals in their new job.If they leave to become an entrepreneur, they are required to get COBRA, which is 2 to 3 times the cost and is temporary. Until the ACA, if the employee left group insurance and went to individual insurance, they faced pre-existing conditions limitations in their insurance policies.Overall, ESI tends to be anti-competitive, anti-entreprenurial and anti-capitalistic. ESI ranks after the VA, Medicare, and Medicaid in satisfaction levels, just above the uninsured. However, ESI is so built in to the fabric of American society, I don't see it going away anytime soon.As I said at the beginning of this answer, the national discussion on UHC has only begun. It's important to consider facts and read a lot of information. Political parties and rhetoric do not offer facts and data.Reputable foundations and non profits have studied UHC extensively. I recommend reading information from Kaiser Family Foundation, The Commonwealth Fund, World Economic Forum and World Health Organization. The CDC can also be a good place to review health information.Footnotes[1] Pros & Cons of Universal Health Care (THE COMPLETE LIST) - Formosa Post[2] Advocates and Opponents Testify at 'Medicare for All' Hearing[3] Ways and Means Committee to hold hearing on 'Medicare for All'[4] Compare Medicare-for-all and Public Plan Proposals[5] CBO warns of complexities, disruption of a single-payer system[6] Finding Solutions: Healthcare[7] How does the quality of the U.S. healthcare system compare to other countries? - Peterson-Kaiser Health System Tracker[8] KFF Election Tracking Poll: Health Care in the 2018 Midterms[9] CBO’s Report On Single-Payer Health Care Holds More Questions Than Answers[10] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/04/12/weve-done-lot-more-than-you-would-think-how-health-insurance-industry-is-working-pull-democrats-away-medicare-for-all/[11] Industry battles Medicare for All traction[12] CBO’s Report On Single-Payer Health Care Holds More Questions Than Answers[13] 3 key moments from the House’s first-ever Medicare-for-all hearing[14] Pros & Cons of Universal Health Care (THE COMPLETE LIST) - Formosa Post[15] How the NYU School of Medicine is going tuition-free[16] Kaiser Permanente's New Medical School Will Be Free For Its First 5 Graduating Classes[17] https://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/top-medical-schools/articles/2017-07-13/how-to-attend-medical-school-for-free[18] New research shows increasing physician shortages in both primary and specialty care[19] The Evil-Mongering Of The American Medical Association[20] How We Got to Now: A Brief History of Employer-Sponsored Healthcare

In a single word… Expectations.The ‘deal’ we doctors make with society is that we will work harder and learn more, for much longer (basically we give up our 20’s which is a huge ask!) We did and still do that for much longer than most. In return, we’ll be available to help society or specifically, you when hurt or ill, fix trauma and heal from injuries or deal illness either through restoration of health or to as comfortable a parting from this world as we can offer you with our knowledge. Perhaps, for a time, in the late 1980’s through the mid 2000’s that was approachable by enough doctors that ‘we’ believed the dream and the dea, as such, would endure whatever was done to us by modernization and automation and computerization. We were wrong.The deal changed but not the healer’s allure or society’s, via parenting, push for the best and brightest to be ‘doctors’ so the toil began and road, the lengthy road was walked and by 2008… a doctor was spending only 30% of their time fixing trauma, orchestrating the healing from injuries or dealing with illness either through restoration of health or, when they had time, helping patients to as comfortable as possible when parting from this world. The remainder of our hours were paperwork, meetings, new administrations, new rules, new compliances, new record-keeping ERM(s), more admin, self-admin, self-reporting, self-documentation and waiting on the phone, waiting for the screen to change, waiting, waiting, waiting…. eventually ‘being’ a doctor in 2019 is just not what was expected by those that began the journey in the mid 2000’s entering college after crushing high school academics.The expectation(s) of becoming an American doctor no longer met any reality of the actual job… it had and has fundamentally changed.The cornucopia of issues, complaints, maladies and symptoms most associated with this reduction in physician satisfaction and ultimately the giving up from practicing medicine is called “Burnout” but, this term is also used in the legal and business and finance worlds to describe a host of issues with high performers committing suicide, being depressed, leaving/retiring early, etc.Burnout Breakthrough: Make the Most of Your Time, Your Family, Your Health, Your Career: Christopher Burton: 9781941578070: Amazon.com: BooksDr. Christopher Burton does a great job of explaining this from the ‘doctor’s’ point of view and offer solutions for the practicing physician in America in his book Burnout Breakthrough. I would consider this a gift to any 20-year-old who tells their parents, “I think I want to be a doctor and am going to take the MCAT.” The parents should read it then give the copy to their daughter or son.The American medical industry would like very much to make almost all physicians employees of the system(s) in whatever regionally dominate healthcare infrastructure or business exists. Employees are easier to control and command. Much easier than working with independent thinking and performing physicians or physician groups. This seismic shift along with the move away from the touted 80-hour-work-week has thrown the supply-demand-cost-efficiency-curves into chaos…. for the most part.To combat this from the administrative side, many new layers and lateral compartments to the healthcare industry operation have formed or been created and the number of administrative or business people in medical practice has exploded over the past 20 years… and it ramped up the previous 20 years as well from 1980→Forward.The result. I am a doctor, My wife is a doctor. My brother is doctor. We have dozens, if not hundreds of friends who are doctors and the vast majority of us actively counsel our children to do something other than medicine. You asked about leaving medicine… but the doctors of America are telling their own kids to never even consider it.Example: My 15 year-old for a time wanted to be a neurosurgeon. We arranged for him to observe in clinics and surgeries and discuss his future with actual practicing neurosurgeons making very good money. (Yes, as anesthesiologists, we were able to do things most others could not for a child interested in surgery) Whether that is ‘fair’ or not, it is what it is and my point is that most children are much more likely to end up in their parents careers than pretty much any other career…. be it NFL Quarterback or Doctor, or Actor, or Dancer or Engineer or Teacher.The surgeons were good guys and gals, some young and some older but they all said that they loved the challenge and rigor of school and the academics it took to understand what it is they do but that all the ‘fun’ was simply gone from modern medicine and surgery… and so my son reached out to MIT’s Media Lab, Dr. Hess’ office that does advanced exoskeletal prosthetics and signed up to take robotics at school because that’s where the fun was in inventing new technologies to help disabled people. Inventing medical technology is still free of the monstrosity as of today.Of course, teenagers are fickle and now he’s one of the leads in the school fall play and trying out for the winter musical but carries an “A” in the robotics class… who knows as he asked about ‘acting’ classes just yesterday.Part of me… “Maybe he could be the next Brad Pitt?” because then he could ‘play’ a neurosurgeon on the big screen without giving up his 20’s and without spending 75% of his time reading endlessly repetitive statements, waiting, clicking, reading endlessly repetitive statements… you get the picture.We asked him just about two weeks ago whether ‘our,’ me and his mother, dissatisfaction with some of the administrations of modern medicine influenced his mind changing?Nope.See for a time, I advised, because I have been a disabled doctor for ten years now… I advise and help young doctors figure out disability insurance and do some financial planning for debt elimination and teach them basic financial literacy which they all want to know but sometimes are afraid to ask the right questions or they simply read online and best-guess how it will work for them personally. This is its own set of issues in medicine.I met with these graduating medical students and residents over the past 3–4 years, many at my home in the evenings when they had free time. My son said it was those conversations he would overhear from the bedroom or basement stairwell, that made him not want to be a doctor in the first place because all the ones I helped wanted out-of-debt in order to leave-medicine and “They hadn’t even begun to work, yet, dad?!?”I personally loved being a doctor and never shied away from administrative work… I went on to attend business and law school, thus paperwork really does not bother me… I enjoy being online, writing and such so I may have fared well in today's medical environ. My destiny was to have my left hand and arm fail me and be removed from clinical medicine only to fight endlessly with a disability company about the right to work, the right to understand, the right to have dignity and purpose through work again… all of which I lost, sadly. Sidenote: Depression from losing the career you worked hard for and loved… sucks. A lot.The last ten years, I would have done anything to be able to just turn back the clock and get a redo but all my friends kept telling me I’d won the lottery because practicing medicine was getting horrible and worsening each year. The last three years I was motivating towards the young graduates and residents. Perhaps naively, I was inadvertently instructing them on how to get through the financial debt and mess they were in after school while not realizing their goal was to ‘get out’ of practicing medicine.Your question, “What are the leading causes…” is difficult to answer with specifics because each place and each hospital has their own manner of dealing with the 4th industrial revolution’s impact on medical technology and the practice of medical care in the America. I’ve just had a front row seat to it and above all, what I conclude is that the ‘expectation’ of the job of being a doctor no longer meets reality and is not even close enough to stomach even for a half million dollars a year! Which, should tell you how bad it has gotten when people just want to get debt free and get out of practice and offering them more money will no longer work.Note: The average doctor makes far less than $500,000/year. In 2019, the average generalist will make $237,000/year and specialist will make $341,000/year. [Medscape Physician Compensation Report 2019]So… that’s a bad picture for our future, right?But… you might not know, I’m an optimist!I strongly believe that those graduating high these next few years, who will go to college, do research, publish, apply and eventually gain entry to medical school circa 2026–2031 who will complete their residencies and fellowships 2033–2041 (depending on speciality) will find dawn breaking in the practice of medicine once again as the nascent adjustment period to our new level of technology begins to give way to working efficiently with those technologies.By 2040, narrow scope AI will record everything a doctor says, orders, sees and considers and it will seamlessly be integrated into decision making and records with continuous feedback for new data, new studies, new approaches and new tendencies such that the standard of care will be very much the same anywhere, anyplace and anyone that a patient sees for treatment. And… all of that will go to another AI to sort out billing, insurance, payments, blah blah blah… and the patient/carrier/gov’t will have a bill and the doctor will have a check (as will the facility, the pharma(s), the rest of the people and infrastructure of that more modern system almost all in realtime without a doctor every signing anything, clicking anything or even glances to approve this or that. Many middle-positions will be eliminated from the medical sector human workforce.By 2040, medical tech and another group of narrow scope personal-AI will be able to detect individually issues far earlier than today and then unconsciously steer personal or patient behavior before they ever get a physician! Eliminating billions of costs from the system and trillions over decades. Many patients will present far earlier and people will have a much better chance of living more healthy to begin with and I think today;s new generations are expecting to live and learn better than the Millennials just above them.Yet, there will still be ladders or long-boards and gravity and broken bones that require a orthopedic surgeon to put things back together. While the vaping craze will create a new disease, V-Lung, another invention for recreation in 10 years will create another new issue. For decades, if not centuries, there will still be that part of the practice and art of medicine required to fix something as beautiful and imperfectly perfect as the human form. That creative-part will still be a human doing that work. Rehab and healing will still require time and care from other human beings.Ultimately, we may advance much in the coming decades but death will come, perhaps not at 80 any longer (except for the 54-year-old male in the year 2043, who refuses to give up his longboard in the streets filled with AI machines), but at age 105. For us, in the future, our biomechanical forms will wear out and still die. Which is scary, sometimes, but should not be sad in general as life leads to death in an endless circle of purpose and time. Hopefully, in all our futures, there will be those who care for us and grant us dignity; Those who make the future ‘deal’ with society to give up their 20’s and place themselves along our path in the human journey and ease our suffering, pain and fear.I hope that helps you answer your query.~ChrisDr. Christopher YeringtonColumbus, OhioBio: Retired from clinical anesthesiology by a disability in 2010, Dr. Yerington has turned his love of teaching and service to others to his family, medical colleagues and community. He speaks, writes and educates others to continue his passion as a healer and teacher. Chris also consoles and counsels young doctors on stress, burnout and physician-suicide. Having attended law and business schools, Chris is a perpetual student of human life, a scientist and an optimistic futurist in his heart.

Absolutely. There is tremendous scientific evidence of the capacity of meditation to effect many aspects of brain functioning in a positive manner. Here is just a fraction of evidence available.Because many here are quick to dismiss the value of such techniques, I have taken pains to offer ample sources of these pieces of information:Stanford University: A meta-analysis of 146 independent studies found that the Transcendental Meditation technique is effective in reducing trait anxiety. Reference:Journal of Clinical Psychology, 45 (1989): 957–974.published, peer-reviewed research is finding that the Transcendental Meditation technique also has a profound effect on enhancing wellness and reducing health care spending.This study measured the change in payments for physicians’ services over 14 years among 1,418 people in Canada who learned the Transcendental Meditation technique, in comparison to 1,418 controls randomly selected from individuals of the same age, gender, and region. After learning the TM technique, individuals showed a significant annual decline of 13.8 per cent in payments for physicians’ services. Reference:American Journal of Health Promotion 14:Alterations in Brain and Immune Function Produced by Mindfulness MeditationAlterations in Brain and Immune Function Produced by Mindfulness MeditationAbstractOBJECTIVE: The underlying changes in biological processes that are associated with reported changes in mental and physical health in response to meditation have not been systematically explored. We performed a randomized, controlled study on the effects on brain and immune function of a well-known and widely used 8-week clinical training program in mindfulness meditation applied in a work environment with healthy employees.METHODS: We measured brain electrical activity before and immediately after, and then 4 months after an 8-week training program in mindfulness meditation. Twenty-five subjects were tested in the meditation group. A wait-list control group (N = 16) was tested at the same points in time as the meditators. At the end of the 8-week period, subjects in both groups were vaccinated with influenza vaccine.RESULTS: We report for the first time, significant increases in left-sided anterior activation, a pattern previously associated with positive affect, in the meditators compared with the nonmeditators. We also found significant increases in antibody titers to influenza vaccine among subjects in the meditation compared with those in the wait-list control group. Finally, the magnitude of increase in left-sided activation predicted the magnitude of antibody titer rise to the vaccine.CONCLUSIONS: These findings demonstrate that a short program in mindfulness meditation produces demonstrable effects on brain and immune function. These findings suggest that meditation may change brain and immune function in positive ways and underscore the need for additional research.Meditation practices have various health benefits including the possibility of preserving cognition and preventing dementia. While the mechanisms remain investigational, studies show that meditation may affect multiple pathways that could play a role in brain aging and mental fitness.For example, meditation may reduce stress-induced cortisol secretion and this could have neuroprotective effects potentially via elevating levels of brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). Meditation may also potentially have beneficial effects on lipid profiles and lower oxidative stress, both of which could in turn reduce the risk for cerebrovascular disease and age-related neurodegeneration.Further, meditation may potentially strengthen neuronal circuits and enhance cognitive reserve capacity. These are the theoretical bases for how meditation might enhance longevity and optimal health. Evidence to support a neuroprotective effect comes from cognitive, electroencephalogram (EEG), and structural neuroimaging studies. In one cross-sectional study, meditation practitioners were found to have a lower age-related decline in thickness of specific cortical regions. However, the enthusiasm must be balanced by the inconsistency and preliminary nature of existing studies as well as the fact that meditation comprises a heterogeneous group of practices. Key future challenges include the isolation of a potential common element in the different meditation modalities, replication of existing findings in larger randomized trials, determining the correct “dose,” studying whether findings from expert practitioners are generalizable to a wider population, and better control of the confounding genetic, dietary and lifestyle influences.Scientific evidence that Transcendental Meditation works“TM dramatically reduces high blood pressure. It also reduces cholesterol, atherosclerosis, obesity, risk of stroke—even lowers death rates due to cardiovascular disease. But this is just the tip of the iceberg. There are so many other benefits to mind and body.”—Mehmet Oz, M.D., Emmy Award-winning host of The Dr. Oz ShowHundreds of scientific studies have been conducted on the benefits of the Transcendental Meditation program at more than 200 independent universities and research institutions worldwide over the past 40 years. The National Institutes of Health have awarded over $26 million to research the effectiveness of TM for reducing stress and stress-related illness with a focus on cardiovascular disease. 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Gray Psychotherapy Training Clinic, American UniversityAmerican Journal of Hypertension, 2009International Journal of Psychophysiology, 2009Cedars-Sinai Medical Center–Los Angeles:Transcendental Meditation reduces hypertension, obesity and diabetes in patients with coronary heart diseaseThis study of 103 people with coronary heart disease found that individuals practicing Transcendental Meditation for four months had significantly lower blood pressure, improved blood glucose and insulin levels (which signify reduced insulin resistance), and more stable functioning of the autonomic nervous system compared to controls.C. Noel Bairey Merz, M.D., Director of the Preventive and Rehabilitative Cardiac Center at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; Professor of Medicine at the UCLA Medical SchoolAmerican Medical Association’s Archives of Internal Medicine, June 2006Medical University of Georgia:Reduced high blood pressure among high school studentsThis eight-month study of 156 hypertensive African American high school students found that the Transcendental Meditation program reduced high blood pressure among the meditating students as compared with little or no change in the control group (twenty percent of African American teenagers suffer from high blood pressure).Vernon Barnes, Ph.D., physiologist and research scientist, Georgia Prevention Institute, Medical College of GeorgiaAmerican Journal of Hypertension, April 2004University of Michigan:Transcendental Meditation reduces stress and increases happiness among middle school studentsTwo studies on 60 sixth-graders at two middle schools found the practice of Transcendental Meditation over four months positively affected emotional development in early adolescent children in a school setting. 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