Posted on 07/30/2018 1:00:19 PM PDT by McGruff
The “Medicare for All” plan pushed by Sen. Bernie Sanders and endorsed by a host of Democratic congressional and presidential hopefuls would increase government health care spending by $32.6 trillion over 10 years, according to a new study.
The Vermont senator has avoided conducting his own cost analysis, and those supporting the plan have at times struggled to explain how they could pay for it.
The study, released Monday by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, showed the plan would require historic tax increases.
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Oh, so it’s free then, huh?
That’s just the government share.
So if they need to make cuts to pay for this, I’m guessing eliminating ICE covers about 1% of this new expenditure..
It won’t even take 10 years with 3,000 “new Americans” crossing the border every day.
We should start printing trillion dollar bills now to get ready for this.
During the campaign Bernie Sanders put out this plan of his and the CBO came back with a figure almost identical, I think it was 33 trillion dollars.
And I’m sure they’re lowballing it too. Remember the wonderful Obamacare projections.
Do people like this have any good ideas as to how to GROW our economy; or do they just know how to SPEND?
2)Wait a year for an appointment.
3)Wait six months after that to get in to see a doctor.
4)Wait ten hours to actually see the doctor who is really a nurse practitioner.
Oh and the rich will pay for it.
Regardless what lawless Obama’s activist justices wanted everybody to think about the constitutionality of Obamacare, since the states have actually never expressly constitutionally delegated to the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification feds the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for INTRAstate healthcare purposes, has constitutionally low-information Sen. Sanders at least posted a YouTube video promoting an appropriate healthcare amendment to the Constitution to the states?
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added]." -Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”... the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Federal Constitution, is in the States, and not in the Federal Government [emphases added].” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe, 1866. (See about middle of 3rd column.)
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
And I’m sure they’re lowballing it too. Remember the wonderful Obamacare projections.
And Social security, and Medicare, and Medicaid .....
This guy want's to spend 1.5 times that figure, on his new plan in just ten years, and that's bad enough. However, if we know anything at all about Marxist/Socialist/Communist plans, it's that they always severely low-ball costs up front.
California's Super Train was first touted as an $11 billion dollar cost to completion.
It's now all but dead, but still predicted to cost around $100 billion if we did build it.
So using this up front quote model, Bernie's true costs for his plan could be around $320 trillion in ten years.
And of course, that makes sense to him. It will make sense to a lot of Millennials also.
To the rest of us, it's two hour old camel poop served up as a meat and potatoes combo.
Thanks, but no thanks...
A drop in the bucket compared to all the saving people have ,but you can only take all their savings once ,D’oh
The little Silver Spoon phony Alexandria Ocasio CORTEZ was overheard saying “Is 32 Trillion a good thing?”
And let me guess who will have to pay for it!! US
What is the cost of current medical care over 10 years. Without that comparison, the article is meaningless. The big concern is the impact of doctors. Medicare only pays doctors 50% on the dollar.
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