Posted on 05/03/2019 6:42:23 AM PDT by xzins
Yep, and healthcare is the gold key they're grasping for. As Mark Steyn so succintly put it, nationalizing healthcare really means the nationalizing of your body. The Left will quite literally own you when they control your healthcare.
I'm assuming "worse." After importing Latin America for 30 years, we won't be turning into Sweden.
Medicare is based on income. I pay over $ 1,000.00 per month for me and my wife not counting another $ 44.00 for part D (?) is it?
No one ever told me this.
I’m no math wiz, but:
$32.8 trillion divided by 323.13 million residents would be $101,507 per resident.
$32.8 trillion divided by 138.3 million taxpayers would be $237,165 per taxpayer.
That seems a tad bit pricey for my liking. Personally, I will stick with my employer’s self insured plan for $1600 Alex.
The exact same look I get when you inform them that legalized pot will be taxed like cigarettes or booze. It is just a matter of time and amount.
The dirty little secret is that the longer you wait, the more expensive it gets.
We ended up having to pay for two months of coverage she never used because it was cheaper than paying inflated premiums down the road by delaying the sign up.
At least for now, she gets better coverage from Medicare than I do from work insurance particularly since we added a $22 per month supplement which is supposed to cover MOST OF what Medicare doesn't. There are still co-pays and extra perks like a gym membership. The main difference now is that Uncle Sap subsidizes her rather than my employer.
A dirty little secret is that Uncle Sap is so incompetent at administration that they pay the supplement plan $800 or so per month for administration . . . the REASON they can throw in inexpensive little perks like gym membership.
FWIW, you're employer's average subsidy is nearly the same $800 per month. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that you can carry a high deductible catastrophic plan, put the difference in a medical savings account and be money ahead for all the extra costs imposed by big government.
Sounds like the culmination of the Cloward and Piven strategy,overload the system causing its collapse
The disconnect is that we are already spending $3.5 trillion per year on healthcare as it is. I have no doubt that Medicare for All will be more expensive, but this old study doesn’t adequately explain why. They are only talking about the government’s share. Maybe they think the patients’ cost will put it over the top?
bkmk
That’s over ten years. So $10 grand a year or so per person.
Their number is over 10 years so the monthly would be $846.
That’s still $8,552 a year more than my plan, so I don’t want it.
Pay it back?
They don't even have a plan to stop increasing it by $1 trillion per year!
What about the portion your employer pays?
Bttt
Excellent
Why should they care? It’s not THEIR money.
Most aren’t ignorant. They just don’t care.
Just like the U.K.! Pull your own teeth!
Once the politicians get between you and your doctor, they own you.
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