National licence mooted to free up research access

It seems to me the following, alternative solution the the problem of research access would work well for just about everyone: - Decouple the cost of publication from reading journals AND from publishing articles in them. Fund journals separately, via medium-term grants, so that both publication and reading are free for everyone. Some journals do operate like this, e.g. some journals backed by a charity or foundation, but it is rare. (Some operate sort-of like this, e.g. PLoS journals offer the possibility of a publication-fee waiver for those who have no source of funding for it.) I assume this idea doesn't come up much in official discussion, because it is not in the interests of a profit-making publisher - and such publishers usually seem to be well represented in these discussions. Under this proposal, journals may cease to operate, if their grants get cut. But it's not the end of the world - so long as the conditions of funding the journal include putting all published material in several freely available repositories, around the world, maintained long-term (e.g., but not only, PubMed).

For anyone interested in debating the details, I have written a lengthy critique of the deficiencies in the proposal for a national licence: http://occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2015/04/08/open-access-a-national-licence-is-not-the-answer/