How much would 'Medicare for All' cost?

[CosmicCowboy]

so if in a given year, her covered healthcare expenses end up exceeding what you've paid by way of premiums/copays/deductibles, they'll just stop paying for her treatments? that would seem to defeat the purpose of insurance tbh


this is you not understanding what a risk pool is.

I know exactly what a risk pool is, asshole.

[spurraider21]

I know exactly what a risk pool is, asshole.

you've described it as though your wife is her own risk pool

[Pavlov]

you've described it as though your wife is her own risk pool

I PAY FOR HER POOL EXCEPT FOR ALL THE OTHER PEOPLE WHO PAY FOR HER POOL

[midnightpulp]

Here's the question we should all be asking: The US has a higher per capita tax expenditure on healthcare than countries with tax payer funded universal healthcare systems. This means the money is already there. So where it is going? Are we that incompetent and/or corrupt as a society we can't figure it out?

Here's where the money is going. Stupid like 6000% increases on drugs and 10K per 5 minute MRI exam. like this is unacceptable:

In the wake of its compe ors' recalls, Alembic last July more than tripled the price of 17 of its own formulations of valsartan.
Those price hikes ranged from 329 percent to 469 percent, according to data from the health care analytics firm Elsevier.

And guess who is paying for those increases if the user of the meds is on Medicare/Medicaid? The tax payer. This is where the money is going. You cut like this out through strict price controls, the money is there for a single payer system in the US.

I've said it in this thread before that the profit motive is fundamentally incompatible with the Do No Harm concept.

[koriwhat]

as much as it'd would cost for you to get a brain transplant that'll at least give you one good brain cell to work with.