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ehrnst

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16. The Urban Institute doesn't let typos get through.
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 01:29 PM
Sep 2017

Here is the abstract:

Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders proposed a single-payer system to replace all current health coverage. His system would cover all medically necessary care, including long-term care, without cost-sharing. We estimate that the approach would decrease the uninsured by 28.3 million people in 2017. National health expenditures would increase by $6.6 trillion between 2017 and 2026, while federal expenditures would increase by $32.0 trillion over that period. Sanders’s revenue proposals, intended to finance all health and nonhealth spending he proposed, would raise $15.3 trillion from 2017 to 2026—thus, the proposed taxes are much too low to fully finance his health plan.

https://www.urban.org/research/publication/sanders-single-payer-health-care-plan-effect-national-health-expenditures-and-federal-and-private-spending

Whatever the numbers are frazzled Sep 2017 #1
Not so certain additional govt funding required BBG Sep 2017 #2
Spending on medical care and taxes can't be substituted for each other. wasupaloopa Sep 2017 #5
Sure they can BBG Sep 2017 #7
What makers you think you have any power or right to force people to play your rules? wasupaloopa Sep 2017 #12
No escaping death, rent or taxes BBG Sep 2017 #13
I have a lot of thoughts but I am wary of sharing them. DemocratSinceBirth Sep 2017 #3
It's really a shame that we can't have actual substantive discussion Ninsianna Sep 2017 #43
Were you here during the primaries ? DemocratSinceBirth Sep 2017 #44
I read articles, not so much the replies. Ninsianna Sep 2017 #45
The original Medicare program was a non starter for decades... Tom Rinaldo Sep 2017 #4
YES! n/t TexasBushwhacker Sep 2017 #11
Those social programs started with nothing like them in place. We already have wasupaloopa Sep 2017 #14
Exactly! mountain grammy Sep 2017 #25
The rich will always get better healthcare. Even with single payor or medicare for all. JoeStuckInOH Sep 2017 #6
in some places that is illegal dsc Sep 2017 #18
There is literally zero chance the US outlaws private practices outside medicare. JoeStuckInOH Sep 2017 #42
Sanders' 2016 bill was analyzed by the Urban Institute ehrnst Sep 2017 #8
$319.8 trillion in 2017? LexVegas Sep 2017 #9
That has to be a typo...in one year? TCJ70 Sep 2017 #10
The Urban Institute doesn't let typos get through. ehrnst Sep 2017 #16
That's fine, but are they saying that all healthcare spending in the country would add up to... TCJ70 Sep 2017 #17
I think that you are reading it wrong ehrnst Sep 2017 #19
Here's just one article on the subject: TCJ70 Sep 2017 #21
Again: ehrnst Sep 2017 #22
Maybe I'm misreading... TCJ70 Sep 2017 #24
The costs of implementation on that timeline ehrnst Sep 2017 #26
That paragraph is about revenue... TCJ70 Sep 2017 #27
Do you know how large a project gutting and rebuilding that section of the GDP would be? ehrnst Sep 2017 #28
16 times the national debt? Yeah, no. n/t TCJ70 Sep 2017 #30
I would suggest that you contact the Urban Institute with questions. ehrnst Sep 2017 #33
You edited your post. I guess they can have typos, eh? n/t TCJ70 Sep 2017 #40
plenty of other countries have transitioned from a market system to single-payer beachjustice Sep 2017 #37
Actually, no, they didn't transition from what we have to Single Payer. ehrnst Sep 2017 #38
the US already has a single payer system, it's called Medicare beachjustice Sep 2017 #47
Billion, not trillion. Ninsianna Sep 2017 #46
I hope all the facts about going from what we have now to single payer are put on the table. wasupaloopa Sep 2017 #15
should be billion not trillion dsc Sep 2017 #20
Which? ehrnst Sep 2017 #23
the first number dsc Sep 2017 #29
Typo in that post. Here is a direct copy from the PDF-- it's 319 billion not trillion! andym Sep 2017 #31
Oh just wait... TCJ70 Sep 2017 #32
Yes, that is the direct copy and paste from the report. ehrnst Sep 2017 #34
Page 3 disagrees with page 25 of the PDF! The Urban Institute does do typos! nt. andym Sep 2017 #35
I suggest you write them. ehrnst Sep 2017 #36
This also explains a few things ehrnst Sep 2017 #39
Urban Institute's analysis is fine andym Sep 2017 #41
First, who gives a fuck if it costs the government a JCanete Sep 2017 #48
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