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That’s Medicare for All and GreenNew Deal over a decade.

If we do M4All, the government would be spending $3 trillion a year for healthcare covering everyone. Maybe even less. That’s $28-32 trillion over a decade. Also remember the federal government and the states are currently already spending $1.9 trillion per year on healthcare via Medicare, Medicaid, VA, CHIP, ACA...you have to imagine consolidating most of that money and finding tax increases on employers and employees to raise the $1 trillion per year in revenue which is really all about siphoning off what we are already spending in the private system and putting it into the public system.

If we don’t do anything with healthcare we will be spending $52 trillion on healthcare over the next 10 years. By 2030, our national health expenditures will be $6 trillion a year or 25% of GDP with $3.5 trillion being paid by the government. That’s more than the sticker price for a single payer!!

Right now our national health expenditures is $3.6 trillion with as I said before $1.9 trillion being spent by the federal govt and states. The rest is being spent in the private system.

So in summary, the government will be spending what will be needed for a Medicare For All system in a decade if we don’t do anything but we won’t have everyone covered while the parallel private system profiteers.

This is huge in justifying the cost to people that are asking how we'll pay for it.

Here's some additional info:

In 2017, the United States spent about $3.5 trillion, or 18 percent of GDP, on health expenditures – more than twice the average among developed countries. Of that $3.5 trillion, $1.5 trillion, is directly or indirectly financed by the federal government.

American Health Care: Health Spending and the Federal Budget
 

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when i really think about, its kind of crazy that for the longest it was bernie, warren, biden as top 3 (not in order) even though it was only polling but still and now suddenly warren and biden look done and klob yeah good showing in NH but youre still behind warren in delegates, youre at what 0 percent with minorities? how are you worse than pete? this all has to bode extremely well for bernie no? almost in the same way bernie was unknown and ended up getting crushed on super tuesday, prob the same will happen to mayo pete
 

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brehs which poll has bloomberg with a decent showing with minorities? is it an outlier? how is that possible?
 

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