Healthcare costs are a problem because they can often be unpredictable and catastrophic. A UBI wouldn&#x27;t fix that; you still need either an insurance or a single-payer system of some sort. The short version is that you&#x27;re going to end up with risk pooling of some description either way.<p>Where the appeal comes for the right is that a UBI would let you eliminate our patchwork of other social assistance programs and all the headache, cost, and inefficiency of their associated bureaucracy.<p>The basic pitch isn&#x27;t actually <i>all</i> that different from the flat tax ideas that are popular in conservative circles with the distinction that a UBI would disproportionately affect the wealthy rather than the poor.