Waste, fraud, abuse and inefficient government bureaucrats,
Health is not the actual point of this type of socialist program.
The point is to pay government employees a lavish combination of salary and benefits. You also need to pay for the buildings and any other infrastructure to support a workplace.
Also, the larger the budget is, the easier it is to hide any diversions of cash to friends.
#1 receiver of all Federal income tax dollar awards? California Healthcare...
Top three over military and government expenses:
HEALTH CARE SERVICES, CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF JE73CDQUAPA7 796528263 $112,483,416,409
RNYS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH F863WQVMZSK7 806781340 $76,558,419,987
RHEALTH & HUMAN SVC COMMN TX G6JLG3FANUA9 806781373 $39,867,961,194
Fourth biggest receiver?
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP ZFN2JJXBLZT3 834951691 $36,412,049,144 (BlackRock)
https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient
“””This is on top of already unaffordable family spending with the average American family expending $32,066 on healthcare in 2024 according to Milliman Medical Index.””””
Since I am covered by Medicare, I am out of the loop as to what health insurance costs these days.
Is the $32,066 on healthcare accurate based on what FReepers younger than age 65 are spending?
It seems high since those people under age 65 do not usually have that many medical problems.
If every last public employee in this country was required to enroll in Obamacare for their Primary health Care at their Own Expense. It would be fixed overnight.
My first doctor in the ‘60’s told me that when he started it was expected a doctor would spend some of his time working for free in a charity hospital. He ticked off the charity hospitals he’d worked at. Then, he said, the government forced the charity hospitals out of existence. As an outgrowth of that he pointed out my window to where the older doctors parked vs the new ones. The older doctors drove older cars like Mustangs and Cougars. The new doctors drove all foreign makes. He said medicine had gone in schools from a calling to what he derisively called “Pre money” instead of premed.
Translating in the lingo from the USSR:
The government-funded (directly or indirectly) "apparatchiks" in their many "soviets" costs a bundle. As it is their "daily bread," they are the avid supporters of government.
"Public employee unions" are not unions, but "cells" in the grand scheme. Burdens on the private sector are indeed burdens.
"Bureaucracy, Unnecessary Rules and Regulations, Directives, Enforcement, and Noncompliance activities."Re-read that with the perspective of a central-planned economy and stat apparatus. It is "apparatchiks" and "soviets."
Anything to do with pills, injections, surgery is crooked as hell.