expand MEDICARE TO INCLUDE ALL AMERICANS of all ages, free of charge, and reform the tax code to pay for it.

Many countries provide free healthcare to their citizens. Although we are the wealthiest nation in the world, It is shameful that, not only do we not provide health care for one another, but our income disparity is so wide that the poor and middle class cannot access the insurance they DO have. Co-pays and deductibles are not affordable. Medicare is already in place for seniors and disabled persons and, although it needs to be expanded, it works well. Americans should demonstrate our unity as a nation and our compassion for one another with Medicare as our government health system for all citizens of all ages, free of charge. To fund this, Americans should pay taxes in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of U.S. citizenship.