You understand that universal healthcare costs france, britain, germany, etc under half of what it does to fund it privately, right?
We spend 17% of GDP on healthcare. All the countries in western Europe spend less than 10% fo GDP and get the same outcomes.
Universal healthcare will not bankrupt anyone, it will just piss rural Americans off because their hospitals will close. The healthcare industry would be cut in half, lol
An Analysis of Senator Bernie Sanders's Tax and Transfer Proposals
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TPC finds the new government benefits would more than offset new taxes for 95% of households but the combined tax and transfer plan would increase federal budget deficits by more than $18 trillion over the next decade."
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If unfunded, the deficit increase would raise interest payments on the national debt by over $3 trillion over the next ten years. The dramatic increase in government borrowing would crowd out private investment, raise interest rates, further increase government borrowing costs,and retard economic growth. In combination with the dramatically higher tax rates, which would reduce incentives to work, save, and invest, the negative macroeconomic effects of the plan could be severe."
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Life is just a fantasy
Can you live this fantasy life?" --
Aldo Nova, Fantasy
Tax isn't GDP herp derp
lol
you'll cut GDP percentage spent on healthcare in half (in a private system)
"BUT TAXES WILL GO UP IF YOU HAVE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE!! "
...Jesus fucking christ
Apparently somebody tore out the chapter on the effects of excessive government debt and debt service costs in your copy of
Economics for Complete Fucking Morons, perhaps you should ask those nice folks over in
Greece if you can borrow their copy.
We spend 17% of GDP on healthcare. That's about 3 trillion dollars this year
We could cut it down to 1.5 trillion
There is no math where that's a loss. There is nothing inherently that would decrease GDP if we nationalized the whole economy at this moment and everything was 100% taxed.
You're slow
Americans would have 9,000* extra dollars in their pocket to tax, and only half of that would need to go to healthcare
Yeah professor if you would have bothered to read the TPC report that I linked, you would already know that Bernie's single payer healthcare "plan" would
increase public and private health care spending by
$5.5 TRILLION over 10 years (and Federal spending on acute health care services would
increase by
$29 TRILLION over 10 years) and even assuming interest rates stay at the current rate (a completely unrealistic assumption) there is still an
$18 TRILLION hole over 10 years and that's not fully accounting for the effects of all Bernie's proposed tax increases on economic growth.
You dreamy eyed socialists just don't seem to get the fact
THERE THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A FREE LUNCH, nor do you appear to be capable of understanding anything relative to how economies actually work and that institutional, culture, tradition and demographic differences between countries rule out perfect portability from country to country at a policy level.
I appreciate the fact that you won't be happy until you complete your goal of completely destroying the U.S. Economy by trying to turn the United States into France, might I suggest that instead of creating untold economic misery here in the U.S., if You, Bernie and all the other clueless BernieBots want to live in a French Economy you just pack your shit and move there.
