But it wouldn’t cost that much in money, because the health care would be rationed and more sick people would die and, as Scrooge put it, decrease the surplus population.
Exactly.
150 million families covered by employer and personal health care today costs each about 20k per year. That’s about 3.2 trillion dollars. And those folks have good health insurance.
If the government ends private health care and takes it over, they are NOT going to spend that amount. They’ll take 4 trillion but spend maybe 1 trillion and tell every formerly covered person in America to get lost and die. (The other 3 trillion will go to crony projects and crony people)
That is what socialists do. They kill you off.
Healthcare is cheap when everyone covered is young and healthy. That's how the military's TriCare works!
I asked liberals this during the debate over Obamacare: What makes you think the government, once they completely take over health care, will not also look at the bottom line, just like an insurance company does?
Blank stares.