It's hard to agree with Bernie and the Democrats on many things these days, but universal healthcare and eliminating the health insurance racket has always been one I've been on board with.
Bernie Sanders’ Medicare-for-All plan would save the country about $450 billion a year on total health care spending while preventing nearly 70,000 deaths, according to a study published over the weekend in The Lancet.
In the analysis, a team of epidemiologists led by Alison P. Galvani of the Yale School of Public Health applied the provisions of Sanders’ plan to real-world spending in the U.S. in 2017. They concluded that Medicare for All would have cost just over $3 trillion that year, or $458 billion less than the actual total. The analysis found that per capita costs would decline, resulting in lower costs overall, even with millions more people covered. And providing universal coverage would save 68,531 lives per year, the researchers.
Medicare for All Would Save $450 Billion and 68,000 Lives: Study
A voice of reason from the true left....my friend Lee Camp.
Here's my first problem... Your link claims that there are 37 Million people currently without health insurance.
Problem: Did not the left-wing and similar report claim that ObamaCare would provide insurance to 40 Million people?
The answer is of course, yes.
So it's fascinating that you claim we need more government run health care, because there are uninsured... and yet that is the exact same rational given for why we needed the last big increase in government run health care.
So explain to me.... why should anyone believe you? You said this last time, and we have a massively increased cost to government, the unfunded liabilities of Medicare and Medicaid now exceed $122 Trillion, and you claimed last time we had to do it for the uninsured, and here we are now with you telling us we need to do more, for the exact same reason.
The cost to the government has not gone down.
Further, the Lancet research does not cover the fact that Medicare would be forced to pay out more money, if we made it national insurance.
Medicare and Medicaid both, do not cover the full cost of treatment. The only way the government has been able to keep this model working for as long as it has, is because health care providers shift-costs to private patients.
We the private public, have to pay more for care, so that government can pay less for care.
If you remove private payers from that graph, one of two things will happen. A: All health care providers will close in bankruptcy. B: Medicare and Medicaid will have no choice but to pay out more money for treatment.
Since option A would result in a national crisis, then option B is the only viable option. And the moment you go for option B, then all your mythical savings goes out the window with it.
Additionally, we already have a fully socialized system in the US, known as the VA system. And maybe you missed it, but the VA system sucks.
