There is a person running for Indiana’s 9th Federal district House of Representatives.
If you listen to what is being promised as what this candidate is behind and then crunch the numbers and/or pay attention to the words that are being used
The first promise is that everyone DESERVES a livable wage… now what is a “livable wage”
Mine and Barb’s family were very similar… Fathers were blue collar, union shift workers and our Mothers were stay at home “homemakers” and the standard of living when were kids would be considered very low standard by today’s standards, back then… it was fairly average.
The second major promise is that healthcare is a “RIGHT” and that it should be “AFFORDABLE”
On a national basis we spend abt $10,000 per person per year on healthcare. That comes out to about 3.2 TRILLION/YR… Currently the ENTIRE FED BUDGET is abt 4 TRILLION/YR. Of course, some pts require more than $10,000/yr in medical expenses and some require less.
What is hard to determine is what part of that 4 + Trillion Federal budget goes to fund Medicare A&B, Medicaid and health insurance that the Feds pay for all federal employees, including military. For the sake of arguement let’s presume that half of that 3.2 trillion cost is paid for out of the Federal budget. Leaving 1.6 Trillion that needs to be paid by someone.
If people expect that the definition of “affordable” is for a national health insurance that is going to pay FIRST DOLLAR – no deductibles and/or copays. Then the feds are going to have to find 1.6 trillion dollars… if they confiscated all the assets of all the country’s BILLIONAIRES… that would pay for the first year… and if they confiscated all the assets of all the millionaires that would pay for the second year..
Close to 50% of households pay NO FEDERAL TAXES… so where is the money going to come from ? How much should each family pay in a deductible and copay… what is considered affordable ?
We are already – and have been for nearly a decade – adding a trillion dollars/yr to our national debt… already at around 21 trillion total.
So the next time that a politician seeking election promises “affordable insurance is a right”.. try to find out the details of where the money is going to come from
If one takes a “conspiracy theory” approach to what is going on with what appears to be some sort of rationing of care for chronic painers and other who could be classified as the “sickest of the sick” and the ones that are consuming a large disproportionate share of our limited healthcare dollars.
Policies that some consider causing a “covert genocide” could be a larger plan to make some sort of national health insurance more affordable… by eliminating the most costly people in our population.
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel one of the people involved with the creation of ACA (Obamacare) suggested in 2014 that people should be willing to “walk away” from being a cost to society when they are 75. You stop contributing to society at 75 ?
After all it is claimed that about 80% of a person’s lifetime medical expenses are incurred in the last couple of years of their life
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Well first of all to make healthcare affordable the government would need to do things like allowing the government to buy medication from other countries who pay much less such as from Canada, GB, Germany ect. There are tons of things that we could be doing that would bring healthcare cost down but the first thing to do is really take healthcare as a right and take the healthcare as a non-profit industry instead seeing as all for profit. I also question the numbers in the article with say healthcare cost 3.2 trillion a year out of a 4 trillion total budget. Well how does that work when just the defense budget itself takes about 50% of the budget. The government agencies have not been a though auditing of expensives in years and I would not be one bit surprised if at least 10% or even more of the government budget is being. Also I would expect to be some co-pay depending on income. There are tons of stuff we can do to cut healthcare cost and at the way it is going Americans just cannot afford 10% to 30% increases in healthcare cost that happen every year. Again how we give out patents for drugs and medical devices is another way companies make huge money on products that are not really not new at all. I know one thing keeping on giving tax cuts to the wealthy and Corporations will not make sure we will end up further behind in
Alone, no politician can appropriate money, make or change laws, etc. Politicians say what people want to hear.
Even if a,politician said how something would be paid for. That does not make it a reality.
Remember the old joke, how can you tell when a,politician is lying ? Answer is his or her mouth is moving.