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There is something we as a people seem to neglect in the arguement concerning the cost of Healthcare and its reform. Costs between 1 to 2 trillion dollars over ten years is tossed around and gets the OMG reaction from a nation nervous about the nations solvency. How much will we be spending on Healthcare over the next ten years? Right now the sum of both private and public spending on Healthcare is 20% of the GDP or about 3 trillion dollars. Multiply this by 10 gets you 30 trillion dollars and this is assuming no increase in costs or a loss of the nation's ability to spend at this level on Healthcare. No cost increases are very unlikely and if you use 7% which is the current and average cost inflation over the past decade you get 45 trillion dollars being spent by Americans on Healthcare from 2009-19. Increaseing that total by by 1 to 2 trillion dollars over the same period represents an increase of 2 to 4 %. Is 2-4 % in anuual increaments of 100-200 billion dollars something America couldn't afford? Keep in mind we are spending the same amount in wars in Iraq or Afganistan which contribute nothing to our defense and will kill 100-300 Americans every year. On defense we will be spending as much as 10 trillion dollars a year for a defense that wasn't able to stop a single hijacked jetliner on 9/11/2001. America doesn't need to shame itself by killing and laying waste to Iraq and Afganistan and who knows where else for something a generation or to from now will be buried by the dust of history. Just like the scars we left in places like the Central Highlands in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
For those who are uninsured and have serious health problems, let them die. They are useless anyway! To help speed up the process we could suggest euthanasia. A low budget funeral is cheaper than pouring out tax money for their problems.
The government pays $255 towards a funeral. That should be enough.
There was an article just came out within the last week saying private healthcare costs would be increasing 9% next year.
Well if America does nothing, maybe we are on track to having spent 50 trillion dollars on healthcare by 2019. This is provided our credit isn't cancelled by the Bank of China.
Well if America does nothing, maybe we are on track to having spent 50 trillion dollars on healthcare by 2019. This is provided our credit isn't cancelled by the Bank of China.
correction you meant if mexico does nothing wich they wont
For those who are uninsured and have serious health problems, let them die. They are useless anyway! To help speed up the process we could suggest euthanasia. A low budget funeral is cheaper than pouring out tax money for their problems.
The government pays $255 towards a funeral. That should be enough.
So if private healthcare is going up 9% wouldn't the government health care go up too ?
After all we're using the same doctors, hospitals and drugs.
Or is this just media manipulation to get the folks swayed over to government run health care ?
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This is provided our credit isn't cancelled by the Bank of China. 
