The “medicare for everybody” proposal.
Lets do the math.
Today we spend over $3 trillion each year, about $10,000 per person.
“Medicare for everybody” is projected to cost about $1.5 trillion each year.
Today we give about $1 trillion each year to insurance companies.
We spend $350 billion out of pocket.
That would likely go unchanged by a “medicare for everybody” approach as many wealthy folks would likely continue to do as they please.
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Combined medicare + medicaid we spend about $1 trillion each year.
We spend about $20,000 per year, per person over age 65.
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Pretty easy to assert that spreading the cost across more payers is a logical long term approach. Like social security, folks that can afford to do as they please can continue to do as they please.
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Prior to asserting that there’ll be an increase in a wait times to see a doctor one should examine the –current– state of things today. Before citing issues in Canada, look at what happens here, particularly in states that have doctor shortages. There’s a reason we’ve been literally importing doctors from other countries.
Save talk radio talking points for talk radio.
They have no place in a reality based, fact based discussion about healthcare in America.
