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re: Let's be real for a minute, everyone knows that universal healthcare isn't free.
Posted on 4/15/19 at 5:54 am to Sentrius
Posted on 4/15/19 at 5:54 am to Sentrius
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Universal healthcare would cost us 32 trillion for ten years. LINK
While I am not arguing Medicare for All is "affordable" or politically possible even if it was affordable I think that number is significantly disingenuous. Even assuming that is the accurate cost it does not go the next step and reduce that amount by the total (or a significant portion) of the private health insurance payments currently made.
The actual "cost" is significantly more complex when you consider the above, along with the costs the government pays now, the economic impact of moving the majority of health insurance from the private to the public sector, the economic impact of potentially a more healthy workforce along with the hopefully lower cost of treating people who can seek earlier care and prevention.
I would love to see a true number for the additional cost or savings to the country as a whole for Medicare for All but complex economic numbers like this are never accurate.
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Posted on 4/15/19 at 6:12 am to Obtuse1
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The actual "cost" is significantly more complex when you consider the above, along with the costs the government pays now, the economic impact of moving the majority of health insurance from the private to the public sector, the economic impact of potentially a more healthy workforce along with the hopefully lower cost of treating people who can seek earlier care and prevention.
Ok
Let's pretend that the only cost associated which healthcare is the 32 trillion number.in any given year there are optimistically speaking about 140 million full-time employed people in United States.
So that number breaks out to a little over $22,000 annually per employed person.
It's about 9,000 annually for every man woman and child
And this is assuming that this will be the first time in the history of the world that a government estimate a future cost turns out to be accurate
Posted on 4/15/19 at 8:25 am to Obtuse1
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Universal healthcare would cost us 32 trillion for ten years. LINK While I am not arguing Medicare for All is "affordable" or politically possible even if it was affordable I think that number is significantly disingenuous.
What you “think” is irrelevant. That $32 trillion number is an estimate by a liberal study. That’s about $3 trillion a year. Our current entire federal budget is $4 trillion
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along with the costs the government pays now, the economic impact of moving the majority of health insurance from the private to the public sector
The majority of? That’s hilarious. Bernie’s new bill, just as his old one did, literally makes all private health insurance illegal. You don’t have a clue what you’re talking about
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the economic impact of potentially a more healthy workforce along with the hopefully lower cost of treating people who can seek earlier care and prevention.
People with cataracts are going blind in the UK due to surgery wait times. That’s not an exaggeration. What you little socialists can’t comprehend is that under Medicare for all, appointments are rationed by time, since price and competition are removed.
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