It would likely need some higher education incentives for those who want to train for healthcare and guaranteed job training for anyone displaced from healthcare-related jobs. MMT economists all see a universal job guarantee as the best way to anchor the economy to labor anyway. The current use of interest rates to stifle employment isn't working against inflation and is cruel.

What won't work is attempting to "pay for" the program with taxes or fees that only draw more demand from the private sector. That is gold standard thinking that must end in any event if we are to remain competitive in the world market. Investments in the people and improving productivity never have to be paid for and taxes are not a funding mechanism anyway.

With a free-floating fiat currency, Congress can "afford" anything it can resource. This makes ALL suffering in our economy entirely a political decision, not economics.