1. You're proposing a linear increase in taxes to solve the problem of exponential growth of entitlements. Eventually you'll run out of GDP. 2. Doctors don't

1. You're proposing a linear increase in taxes to solve the problem of exponential growth of entitlements. Eventually you'll run out of GDP. 2. Doctors don't come out of assembly lines. Professionally trained medical staff is the biggest component of the Medicare blowout, and there is no easy way to increase supply in the short term. Dumping a lot of dollars into the Medicare system just drives up costs for everybody while shifting the limited supply of medical care around. From the perspective of the tax-paying middle-class, they'll be paying more into the system AND get worse medical care. That's the real political non-starter.