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Rationing. And government-administered like the the VA? That won't be acceptable to Americans.
More like medicare, one of the most popular programs.
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Perhaps you'd like to take a stab at suggesting how the US can raise an additional $3.2 trillion/year in tax revenue needed to pay for national health care.
No, I won't play your dumb game. I have no use justifying made up numbers.
If other countries with considerably lower per capital GDP can have universal health care, then why can't the USA?
Even Rwanda has universal health care, the USA has a gdp per capita 30x that of Rwanda. Now while the life expectancy of Rwanda is below that of the USA for obvious reasons, it's better than all her neighbors, none who have universal health care.
Let's see your plan to raise the required $3.2 trillion/year ($32 trillion is the ten year additional cost projected by the Urban Institute). How would you raise that much tax revenue? Remember, employers spent a total of $160 billion on employee health insurance last year. There's a pretty large gap between what they paid and what's needed to fund national health care.
Total US payroll is $6.5 trillion. A 7.5% payroll tax increase (employer + employee) will only raise $487.5 billion in tax revenues. You're still short over $2.7 trillion.
Employers spent $160 billion on employee health care last year? A mere $1000 per employee? You are living in fantasy land.
Urban Institute is anti-single payer but even they say its cheaper than what we pay now, as we currently pay $3.5 trillion, rising to roughly $6 trillion by 2027. Thats 18% of GDP, rising to 20% by 2027. Almost half of that is funded by taxes already. An absurd amount of money in an extremely wasteful system rampant with price gouging and we still leave tens of millions without proper care. There is no reason why we cant have health care costs in line with the rest of the developed world.
More like medicare, one of the most popular programs.
Medicare uses private providers/services and one must buy supplemental insurance for prescription drug coverage, the 20% co-pay, deductibles, etc. Plus, as already explained, there is no funding to extend Medicare.
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No, I won't play your dumb game. I have no use justifying made up numbers.
Every numerical fact I've posted is verifiable. Mike can't do it. You can't do it. That's why it won't happen unless the US implements a 25% national VAT tax. But look at how much so many people fight against it. So... national health care won't happen.
Incidentally, the state of Vermont's plan to implement state health care came to a crashing halt because they couldn't solve "the raising enough tax revenue to fund it" problem either.
Medicare is not socialized health care. Its single payer but its not like the UK and VA where the government runs it. So Medicare-for-all does not mean socialized medicine.
I'm fine with Medicare, as it is socialized enough. Yes it is run, administrated and partly supported/paid for centrally. But the HC is generally delivered by the private sector, and that is how it should be.
What is verified? That some think-tank came up with that number and you're throwing it around like it's a law of physics. I have no use to debunk some random calculations done by people pushing an agenda.
Here is a simple fact: the US government already spends more per head than the UK does.
Going to a universal health care system will drastically change the landscape of US' healthcare in a way that institute cannot calculate (and probably doesn't want to do). For one, the price of many services and drug prices will be greatly reduced.
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