Do you believe that Obama’s health plan will only cost the federal gov’mt 100 billion a year?
Thіѕ іѕ thе number thе Obama folks hаνе stated аѕ thе cost fοr thе рlаn.
I attended a symposium іn DC, οf health professionals аnd health wonks, thаt believed thе expense wουld top 1 trillion annually. It wаѕ nοt a partisan discussion.
No but then again single payer healthcare, get the free market totally out of healthcare would actually cost far less than anything that's being proposed by the Washington crowd that continues to do the biding of the healthcare industry instead of focusing on the needs of the American people.
http://www.grahamazon.com/sp/financing.php
http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/recips.php?cycle=2008&ind=H01
A majority of healthcare professionals agree
http://www.pnhp.org/facts/single_payer_resources.php
In overall life expectancy, the United States ranks an astonishing 42nd, behind not only Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and all the countries of Western Europe, but also Israel, Greece, Singapore, Costa Rica and South Korea. The US spends twice as much money per capita on health care as any of these countries, but its citizens live shorter lives.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9621
In healthcare like in fire protection and national defense the "free market" and the for profit motive have no place in a civilized country.
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I HOPE HES HAPPY
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MY FAMILY COULD USE THAT MONEY!
I trust the predicted expenditures from your sources much more than Obama’s. No, 100 billion a year is a drop in the bucket, IMHO.
I would take the numbers from a non-partisan group of health professionals over any campaign rhetoric.
Do you really think his plan even has hope of getting off the ground in the first place? I see this Congress as making his plans unrecognizable.
Edit (JGF): Even if you started giving away those medical educations right this minute it would be a decade before you could see any result (assuming we could get qualified people in the first place under such a scheme). In a free nation, wealth and success are rewards for high achievement. We remove those rewards and we remove high achievement. This isn't Belgium.
Ha ha, not a chance. Get government involved and the cost will no longer matter. $1 trillion is probably too low.
Oh I thought it was suppose to save everyone money, guess it was another redistribute the wealth type thing. Get our health care now and let our grandchildren pay for it later.
No it will cost much more not only in dollars but when you socialize medical care lives will be part of the cost as well
Perhaps his plan would cost the treasury some bucks. I read his health plan proposal a year ago or so. I thought at the time it sounded budget neutral. But since it would attract those people who need health care the most, the chronic cases would leave the private health insurance market and opt, with little choice, for federal coverage.
This would naturally put a higher cost strain on the federal plan. But, one has to consider how much money will remain in the middle class workers pocket as a result of this cheaper health coverage. Maybe the government will be out $100 billion, but if the saving to middle class income is $200 billion, then the economy has a net gain.
You can’t judge the outcome of this plan until you calculate not only government expenditures but middle class savings as well. If the savings outpace the expense, the plan is a good one for the economy. It is the same reasoning for a public water system, school system, and police and fire protection. It the service cost less throught a government run agency, than the economy benefits and expands.