Sen. Bernie Sanders' “Medicare for All” predicted to cost nearly $33 trillion, per Mercatus Center study (health care system, premium)

[mike1003]

Sorry, dupe thread

[Roboteer]

So, Bernie wants to spend approx. $100,000 for each man, woman, and child in the country?

A cool half million for a family of five, like mine?

And he says this is SAVING money?

And that Americans are already spending MORE than that?

No wonder he lost.


(BTW, couldn't find the thread that this is supposed to be a duplicate of)

[PCALMike]

Originally Posted by Roboteer

So, Bernie wants to spend approx. $100,000 for each man, woman, and child in the country?

The projected costs of the CURRENT health care system is over $50 trillion in the next decade. $17 trillion more than this. And still we have tens of millions who are not properly covered and people have huge deductibles and co-pays which will be virtually eliminated in a single payer system.

Seems to be a classic case of the corporate media just throwing out a big number, to rile people up, while "forgetting" to tell what the current system is costing us.

[Eli34]

I didn't pay any any healthcare premiums in Canada, it was all included in our taxes.

On top of that, I pay the same amount of taxes here in the U.S that I did in Canada, so Americans are getting ripped off big time by the big Corp's here.

BY the way, all our hospitals were privately ran businesses. They still have to compete for your business.

[Winter_Sucks]

Medicare for all is still cheaper than our current system with the added benefit of covering everyone, creating healthier and more productive citizens, and eliminating health care costs for businesses.

[PCALMike]

Originally Posted by Winter_Sucks

Medicare for all is still cheaper than our current system with the added benefit of covering everyone, creating healthier and more productive citizens, and eliminating health care costs for businesses.

Yeah, I guess a true headline of "Libertarian think tank admits Medicare-for-all will save trillions of dollars on the current system while covering everyone" is unacceptable.

[Kevroqs]

Where are we going to get the money to pay the 33 trillion that it costs?

[MacInTx]

Originally Posted by Kevroqs

Where are we going to get the money to pay the 33 trillion that it costs?

The same place we'll get all of the money Bernie wants to spend...


Tax the RICH!


Of course, the RICH don't have enough money to pay for everything Bernie wants, but no one mentions that to him.

[MacInTx]

Originally Posted by Winter_Sucks

Medicare for all is still cheaper than our current system with the added benefit of covering everyone, creating healthier and more productive citizens, and eliminating health care costs for businesses.

Wow! That Medicare-for-all is magic! It'll CREATE healthier and MORE PRODUCTIVE citizens!


And it will ELIMINATE health care costs for businesses! YES! And all of that profit will flow into the pockets of all of those RICH FOLK! And we'll just TAX the RICH to pay for the Medicare-for-all!




YES!!! Bernie has it all figured out!

[Nodpete]

Com'on folks, this isn't real money, it's just 'Bernie money', kind of like 'obama phones', free for all that belieive !