on a serious note one way to get some funding for healthcare would be to legalize marijuana. not only would people smoke it but it would creat jobs with hash bars, growers, processors and would even help reduce the amount of lumber used for paper since it's a renewable fast growing crop and could be used for paper, ropes(we would not have had ships back in the day if it wasn't for this) oils, and even plastics from the oils, clothing, etc. that would actually generate a truckload of revenue just from the smokers. it also has mant medicinal purposes also and now that vaporizers are cheaper it would not hurt the lungs at all. look at alcohol, regardless of the economy ot would make money and that moeny generated would help the uninsured bocome insured and the system would not have to be changed to a gov't run entity.