How will America pay for the Democrats Health Care Reforms ? The current cost is estimated at 900 billion dollars. This assumes they can reduce the current cost of Medicaid by 300 billion thru cost cutting (which no one believes is possible)
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We need major spending reforms in ALL government programs, not just medicare. And your comment "which no one believes is possible" is your opinion, I know plenty of people who CORRECTLY believe it CAN BE done.
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"No one", since when did I give you permission to speak for me? Their working things out, nothing is set in stone, lets wait and see.
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Easily. Health care reform, if done right, will save the economy money overall. Businesses will no longer have to waste money dealing with a problem society could deal with more efficiently.
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$900 billion in 10 years is only $90 billion a year. we pay HMOs and health insurance companies $17 billion a year for Medicare Advantage before we even begin paying them for health care - that'll save $170 billion. fraud is $10 billion a year so that's $100 billion. allowing medicare to negotiate drug prices like other capitalistic nations do would, even if we only spend 150% more than other nations on drugs, save $50 billion a year or $500 billion over the 10. that's $770 billion. if it weren't 1 AM, i'd be able to identify the needed $130 billion. i agree with you. cutting medicaid any more is like cutting off your head to save blood.
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last night i got us up to $770 billion savings over 10 years. if medicaid (which costs 8%) to administer were simplified into one single operating system and it would cost the same as medicare (3%) we'd save $18.75 billion a year or $187.5 over 10 years. that totals $957.5 billion. not really done, but, for my answer now yes!!!
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The last figure I heard were trillions (over how much time I don't remember)
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