Technique - April 10

I'm going to do some more brainstorming today about healthcare.

How much would taxes go up if a mandatory national healthcare system were implemented?
Would the training and/or selection of doctors and nurses change?
What would determine the funding of hospitals: population or track record?
Would students be "recruited" to become doctors, in order to fill the need?
Would more scholarships then become available for those students?
How would those scholarships be funded?
If students are recruited to become doctors and nurses, would the government necessarily pay for their education? For their malpractice insurance?
What would the restrictions be on which doctors you could visit: by town, county, state?
Would any additional funds be allocated to hospitals besides those raised from healthcare taxes?
During times of low economy, what takes more precedence: the army or healthcare? Most republicans would try to balance it out, whereas many democrats might believe that the army should be withdrawn from all its foreign posts, so as to get more funds to healthcare.
If every citizen in the nation has the same healthcare provider, which is funded through taxes, what happens to those people who do not pay taxes? Not children or the elderly, but people who choose to not pay taxes? They have a right to be healthy, but they have not paid for their healthcare with their own taxes. Would tax records then become part of the procedure at hospitals?

If we kept our current system, what could be changed to better it? Maybe a combination of federal and private funding, so that insurance starts at medicaid for everyone, and then additional insurances could be added by citizens?
If there is healthy competition between medical providers and innovators, would those advancements as a result of competition decrease if more unbiased federal funding is added to the system?