Annual health care spending in the US in 2014 was 3.8 trillion. Your plan is already in the hole based on 2014 spending, let alone what the spending is now.
Medicare is a 3 tier system. Gov subsidy, insurance company, and deductibles / copays. Not all of it is footed by the .gov. We can tackle the fake charges that hospitals use to write tax deductions. A $60 boot is turned into $250 so they can claim a greater loss. A portion of our medical system is literally fraudulent. Then there's the battle to cut drug costs, etc. There is much we can do to reform the whole thing. Last, but not least, everyone being able to afford care will prevent a lot of the more severe and more costly treatments that we incur as easily treated diseases no longer linger.
If it needs more funding than assumed, don't worry... there's a fairly large chunk of change left over.
Basic income? What does that provide for?
Pretty sure I've covered that in this topic.
Let's see..
The math thoroughly supports that, if taxed at 100%, every single couple would have ~1.76 million to start a family with.
Therefore, the problem CAN be solved with enough money applied to solve it.
I simply ask for a quarter to apply the same basic principles.
The current system is filled with holes and limitations that do not make any sense. It lacks the nest egg, which is a key component of EVERYONE having home, transport, and education. The monthly income after that is padding to cover disability, unemployment, social security, et al. It does not leave you behind if you find a job, so there is no trade off to punish working. No incentive to increase costs with more kids. No pyramid scheme to make a later generation pay off the debt. It brings balance and stability to a system that is in chaos.
It also frees us to pursue the free market and cheapen the cost of goods even if it costs us jobs. That has, and will, continue to occur regardless but at least we'll be prepared. A safety net compliments the free market nicely. We just have to drop old dogmas and wake up to the fact that we are a wealthy nation, the economy is about to radically upend itself, and UBI is the only clear path forward.
Long story short, the math proves it can work.
At a UBI of $1k / month per person, every couple would start life off with a $432,000 nest egg. That's the realistic quarter version of the figure above. This figure would be enough to secure housing, transport and education. All the tools for a "free ride" into the Middle Class. The monthly "income" of $2k for a couple will give them options should they want to move or find new work. All without the hoops and hurdles they currently have to beg for. It is my "Libertarian" version of an already existing "welfare state".
For that matter, what constitutes the remaining Federal Budget?
Literally everything in our current budget that would not fall under welfare or medical. Those are already the massive, big ticket, items.
Your budgeting seems very Trumpish in nature. Lot's of high-level talk, nothing in the way of details.
My last post was a snapshot of the big picture to help illustrate it for you in its totality. That often gets lost in the details, and/or posters will simply gloss over large posts as TL;DR. It helps leave an impression to have the bullet points ready. That you assume it's all there is, well... that's amusing. The economy is the basis of my political conversion from Libertarian. I would not have done so lightly.
Far as I have seen, the Republican side has no alternative. No answers. Trickle down has failed this country for 40+ years. It's time we stop pretending taxes are the sum of all ills, and realize that the value of labor has tanked. And that loss isn't over. Automation will soon end any fantasy the Republicans could ever hope to hold for job creation.
We are entering a brave new world. It's time we step up, face economic reality, and help our people through the changes.