Democratic state lawmakers admit lobbyists helped write their op-eds attacking Medicare-for-All

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21. under the current system, total healthcare expenditures for the 10 years starting next year will be

52.5 (per one of the main architects of the ACA on MSNBC a month ago or so) to 57 trillion USD at current rates of increase (that counts all monies, public and private, spent, including pharma), over the the next 20 years, at current rates, well over 125 to 130 trillion (or more) USD. That also assumes that the current system remains intact, which it likely will not, if the SCOTUS invalidates the ACA next year. If it is struct down, the rates of increase will more than likely be even higher.

That is unsustainable, but even at SMALL margins of profits, that is trillions of profits at stake. The systemic controllers will do ANYTHING to not give that multi-trillion dollar skim up. It is going to take a systemic crash to get it sorted.


I had some gaslighter awhile back try and tell me that there were no major profits being made in the US healthcare system.



The US healthcare system is one giant wealth extraction scheme. At current rates of increase we are going to be spending close to 6 trillion USD per year by 2027, 2028. That is madness.

In the past 10 years, we have spent around 33 trillion dollars. ONE health insurance firm alone (UnitedHealth Group) has made over 66 billion dollars in net profits over that time span, 12 billion USD in 2018 alone, 22.5 billion in the last 2 years, and are on track to make 150-160 (or more as scales of economy will act as multipliers) billion USD combined net PROFIT between 2019 and 2028. That is RAPACIOUS, and it is mostly skimmed off via the middleman role of for-profit INSURANCE and other profit centres as they continue to horizontally and vertically expand.

Look at the massive difference between what the US spends per capita versus the rest of the nations, and the gap is only going to get larger. This chart is already out of date BTW, we are already above the 2017 rates per capita.



Again, the only way this system gets fixed, given the current political/structural landscape is IMHO more than likely via partial systemic collapse, as there is simply no way this rate of cost/profit increase can continue decade after decade. The ACA cost increases where back-loaded to kick in starting around 2017 or so and forward. That year is when, for example, United Health's profits exploded. Citizens United and other endemic factors have opened the spigot to the raw buying and regulatory capture of our entire political/governmental superstructure by Big Healthcare, Big Pharma, and Big Insurance. That is only being exacerbated under the odious Trump administration's deregulatory schemes, which if they get their big 'win' at SCOTUS level and the entire ACA is trashed, will expedite this entire situation even more timeframe-wise towards a catastrophic outcome.