In 2010, the per capita cost for all persons on Medicaid was $5,000.
We could have put every uninsured American on Medicaid for $200 billion, and probably less, since so many were healthy.
Wait times for Medicaid appointments and treatments would have gone up, but so what, since they would have been no longer than the wait times that already exist under national health care in Canada and the UK.
Barack Obama increased the national debt by $8 trillion, from $12 trillion to $20 trillion.
Who would have even noticed another trillion dollars?
Instead, we got ObamaCare, which most GOP Senators and Congressmen still want to keep and improve!
This forty million without health insurance in 2010....is a myth piece.
It’s a fairly wide group. You had some folks who were in the 18 to 30 age group....good health...seeing no reason to spend money on health care. You had another group who had serious long-term health issues, and would never be able to afford insurance. You had some folks who believed in a cash-situation (lot of farmers fit into that deal). Throw in the Amish crowd (270,000).