Posted on 03/02/2019 4:48:14 AM PST by Libloather
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) expresses some skepticism about single-payer health insurance in a new interview, asking how the trillions of dollars in new spending would be paid for.
“That is, administratively, the simplest thing to do, but to convert to it? Thirty trillion dollars. Now, how do you pay for that?” Pelosi said of single-payer in an interview with Rolling Stone.
The roughly $30 trillion price tag over ten years of single-payer health insurance, sometimes referred to as "Medicare for all," has been one of the leading criticisms of the proposal.
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Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), who is the main sponsor of the single-payer legislation with Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), struck a very different tune than Pelosi on the issue of paying for the legislation when speaking to reporters earlier this week.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Didn’t she hear Comrade Harris? You don’t worry about paying for it.
Hell must be frozen over, Pelosi actually made sense for once.
Probable band / eye switch. Pelousi has never cared before about the taxpayers. She doesn’t care now. Hand / eye switch imho
Election rhetoric of “everyone in America deserves free healthcare, after all, we are the richest nation on earth....BLAHBLAHJBLAHBLAH
So anyone who thinks they're going to get Medicare for FREE is kidding themselves.
Medicaid and Disability have raped the system.
Well, they’ll pay for it through taxes and money printing, while telling you how much you are saving since you don’t have insurance premiums or co-pays.
Then they’ll means test you on your gross income and you’ll pay extra in addition to your increased taxes, anyway. As is done with Medicare now.
Oh, and several million people will be summarily unemployed from insurance companies. Stockholders won’t be compensated for their interest in a suddenly outlawed business. The government will have to take over all of the insurance company payment infrastructure. For a look at how smoothly that will transition, think back to the Obamacare software roll-out disaster.
In the article Pelosi said, “That is, administratively, the simplest thing to do, but to convert to it . . .”
Administratively Obamacare has been a nightmare. One can only image what a 100% government managed health care system would look like administratively. On second thought, we already have the VA healthcare system.
What everyone is forgetting is that the whole world will try to come here if that is implemented. Democrat wet dream. That is why they are doing it.
Will I have to show an ID when I go to use it?
And why? If it is for “all?”
The pay question is easy. Quit paying doctors and nurses and such the exorbitant salaries. Hire more lawyers to go to court over cost excesses.
Germany pays a 10% employee an 10% employer payroll withholding (20%). Someone figured we would have to have a 14.5% employer and 14.5% employee tax here. (29%)
“Progressives” talk about having the same system as Denmark, etc. My cousin earns about $60,000 and his taxes are 60%. (Plus a 18% VAT) The Democratic Socialists should tell the folks the truth instead of promising to tax the rich for their scheme. Taxing the rich drives them out of the picture. It never works.
Nancy, you just need to consult with the experts in your own party. It's really very simple. Any competent economist can tell you that. As AOC will tell you, you just print it.
She really has lost her mind. She forgot that is how they control the people.
It is very simple and the passion of the Left for 100 years. Restrict access to only the “more equal than you..”
Wall first, then we can talk. (Old Dem trick: ask for the concession first, but never follow thru with your half of the deal!)
The combined salaries of the nurses and doctors would never get even close to a trillion over the period they are talking about let a lone a year. Health spending is about 7 trillion or 1/3 the GDP of the US per year so
How much do YOU think a good seasoned nurse should be paid per hour, then? 15 dollars per hour minimum wage and capped?
Making a detailed analysis is not required. Just offering up possible and seemingly reasonable ways to save money is all that is politically required.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding your point of view but it sounded like you were saying that nurses make more money than you feel they are worth?
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