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Originally Posted by Azure
I'm not saying Medicare is a terrible program. It might be a good program even, but there is a HUGE problem with the amount of money it is costing.
I don't see how this current bill being proposed is any different. And if I run some numbers based on what the cost was estimated to be for Medicare, and what it actually was, and use the percentage increase to do the same thing with this current bill, the cost is something like $65 trillion by 2050.
And that is without calculating in how many people were on Medicare at the beginning. Right now there are 45 million on it, IIRC, which would be about how many people Obamacare would cover.
So, the numbers could actually be HIGHER.
Unless of course you trust the government to not underestimate costs.
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You are talking as if people are disagreeing with you.
I think this subsidy of private insurance won't work, and your numbers suggest it would be prohibitively expensive - yet you scoff at a single payer system.
Do you support the Republican "nothing to see here, just keep paying through the nose" stance?