The eye-popping cost of Medicare for All

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98. I understand what per capital means.

A snapshot value of per capital depends upon what took place in the past. I pointed out that those countries made low cost investments at cheap prices. Those investments are paying dividends now, their new expenditures are just to keep their system modern. In the USA, investments are made by for profit companies, who made those investment to begin with to make a profit. So our per capital costs naturally are going to be higher. To reverse that, government would need to own hospitals and places like imaging, heart and lung and Gastroendo clinics - that requires an enormous PRESENT DAY expenditure of money, an enormous amount when we talk about MFA or similar programs that seek to insure everyone via the government. I believe that closing the ACA gaps is a far saner way to go longterm.

Also, there are some other features, those countries don't have the large number of obese people that we have, nor the net number of people that smoke and drink to excess. There are enormous costs associated with those health damaging conditions being present in this country in large numbers.