Can this really work out?

When I heard the evening news today, I was rather suprised to hear this story on the news stating that the City of Ferndale is going to implement a Universal health care program for all of the residents in the city.
Here is an excerpt I found on the web whilst I was looking for more info regarding it.

...Our plans to bring UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE to Ferndale by way of a ballot proposal this November to create, among other things, a free health care clinic for ALL Ferndale residents. It's part of our much larger statewide campaign, but this is where the real action is.

To implement such a system they would need to get funds for it, and this is usually acheieved by raising taxes. Apparently there are a large number of Ferndale residents that are open to having their property tax increased by as much as 200% to make this a possibility.

As a wanna be future healthcare economist, Im not sure how well such a system would actually work. One must also consider the ramifications of such a system being implemented, there would be more uninsured/ underinsured people that will be seeking to move to the city, growing at such a rate that the system will be over-burdened. For such a system to come into play, there needs to be a larger state wide initiative to make it a more viable option, also I'm not sure that the average joe tax-payer would be too happy to hear of having to pay more taxes. (mind you little does he know that he is already paying for care of the uninsured to a degree, in the form of higher premiums on their health insurance)