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2017-08-03 Government

Sen. Claire McCaskill Open to a $32 Trillion ‘Medicare for All' Single-Payer Health Care Scheme

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-03 00:59|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Of course she's 'open to it.' Medicare for all aka 'Single Payer' was the plan all along.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-03 01:04|| 2017-08-03 01:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Where the $32 trillion are supposed to come from?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-08-03 01:10|| 2017-08-03 01:10|| Front Page Top

#3 That $32 trillion is before applying government cost underestimation and other factors - probably more than double that.

Posted by Glenmore 2017-08-03 01:41|| 2017-08-03 01:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Senator who?

Your entire growth rate does not even come close to the actual $12 Trillion it takes to feed a LOG TRAIN,and pieces of shit lawyers like you do not actually know how to actually EARN what the cost of this is.

Because you idiot lawyer commies in the government are always a net loss on any balance sheet.

You suck very bad in all economics as any idiot marxist does. All you do is corrupt education and deliver sloppy seconds.

I HATE YOU. YOU ARE THE DESTRUCTORS OF CIVILIZATION ACROSS THE WORLD.

Your idiot salaries, and the cost of doing business with an idiot collective with the likes of you is just like a US Soviet "democrat" government.

For anything you idiots know nothing, un-hireable, pieces of marxist shit you people are. You do not know how things sholud work, or do work. You are useless o all of civilization.

And yes!
This is Personal.

Here is your GDP GDP (purchasing power parity):
$18.56 trillion (2016 est.)
$18.27 trillion (2015 est.)
$17.81 trillion (2014 est.)
note: data are in 2016 dollars

And you are $216 Trillon in debt to unfunded liabilities you already promised.

Worse yet, you are adding icing to a cake that does not exist.

You, Claire are the House of Cards.
You are the reason we must .....

Primary, Primary, Primary,
Primary, Primary, Primary.

Bring important things home again, and get off of this idiot leviathan full of idiot tyrants with stupid commie mental midget ignorant ideas.

F all of you know nothing politicians and don't let Satan hit you on your way out.

Posted by newc 2017-08-03 04:33|| 2017-08-03 04:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Meanwhile they [Congress] choose{s} a gold-level Obamacare policy and receive(s) federal subsidies that cover 72 percent of the cost of the premiums.

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Medicare costs an aging population with many ailments $505 billion/yr. The oldsters pay for their Medicare and a supplemental policy--they have paid into the Medicare fund their entire lives and they continue to pay for it after 65.

There are the numbers Claire. Go back to your drawing board. If you can't figure this out, you and the rest of your ilk should step down. No way, that healthcare ought to cost $3.2 trillion/year.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-08-03 08:37|| 2017-08-03 08:37|| Front Page Top

#6 ...if Democrats were able to keep costs down through comparison shopping.

How'd that work out the last time you tried it?

Posted by Raj 2017-08-03 12:15|| 2017-08-03 12:15|| Front Page Top

#7 "Comparison shopping" with a single-payer would end up being the single-payer (the gov't) doing the comparison, picking a winner then requiring everyone to use that winner ... right?

In other words, no real choice from the consumer end.

Posted by ExtremeModerate 2017-08-03 13:31|| 2017-08-03 13:31|| Front Page Top

#8 That $32 trillion is before applying government cost underestimation and other factors - probably more than double that.

Personally, I have the factor at 3 - 3.5 and it feels low sometimes.

Posted by swksvolFF 2017-08-03 17:17|| 2017-08-03 17:17|| Front Page Top

#9 In a parallel development, Britain's NHS North Yorkshire Trust announced yesterday that persons with a body mass index of over 30, or are smokers, will have an additional year wait for surgical procedures. Because you cost too much.

Posted by ed in texas 2017-08-03 18:43|| 2017-08-03 18:43|| Front Page Top

#10 Medicare for all probably does not include Congresscritters or their minions.

Posted by CrazyFool 2017-08-03 21:16|| 2017-08-03 21:16|| Front Page Top

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