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10. $13 billion a year is a rounding error for Medicare and Medicaid

Reply to Comrade Grumpy (Reply #3)

Sun Aug 9, 2015, 12:09 AM

Aug 2015

Even just covering the 40% of the US that is on Medicare and Medicaid costs a trillion dollars every year.

I'm against the plane because it's a bad design, but it's not even a player in terms of where our money is going.

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