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Replacing "the economy" with "rich people's yacht money" - Medicare for all would destroy rich people's yacht money (twitter.com)

submitted 1 year ago by cyu to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

As I read only two days ago on Lemmy:

America pays US$1.8T/yr for the government (non-user-fee) part of healthcare delivery costs, and users are still required to pay HUGE sums and/or force their insurers to pay for a sizeable portion.
6 EU nations with 335M people altogether pay US$1.2T/yr (or 1/3 less) and their people don't pay a cent for service.

So already the USGov is paying 50% more than it needs to pay if it wanted to offer a similarly free-for-the-patient kind of healthcare as is provided by 8 of the top 10 happiest nations. It's just such a broken system that merely locking it down to single-payer would save half a trillion US dollars a year and ensure equal healthcare access for all once the reorg was complete. And Obama knew.

Obama's only mistake was thinking he'd be allowed to start that process.