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Originally Posted by InformedConsent
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Your post continues the nonsense. What you said was...
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Originally Posted by InformedConsent
The US citizenry doesn't pay that now. Employers and local and state governments pay most of it. No, the $3.2 trillion/year is IN ADDITION TO what the Fed Gov already spends on Medicare and Medicaid, which is about $1.2 trillion/year. Why so much extra? About 30 million people are currently still uninsured
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You are under the impression that the state, local, federal governments and the corporations have a source of income not from the citizenry? You really going to sink to the level of claiming government payments are free money?
You also appear to believe the uninsured have no health care costs. How do you think that works? The do of course have health care costs which they pay or are loaded into the system overhead. One might argue they do not spend enough but that is a different problem.
We are discussing changes in the cost to the USA of all health care. That remains the same or decreases. The Feds obviously go from paying part to paying all the costs. But the costs may actually go down and all are covered.
Your 3.2 trillion number as an additional cost is absolutely absurd. Changing the source of funding is not going to double health care cost. Even a true believer like you should be able to figure out that doubling the cost of health care in a short period is an impossibility.