Comments by "" (@thehumanity0) on "‘Medicare for All’ bill would cost $32.6 trillion, study says" video.

  1. Funny how Fox Business can't do simple subtraction to find a net DIFFERENCE in cost. Pretty sure middle school kids can do that type of math equation.
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  2. If you have money you still won't have to wait. Even with Medicare for All, there will still be private insurances since there are so many millionaires and billionaires in this country that will buy it to skip the line in front of everyone else just like they do with everything in this country. There's really no difference for people who have money, but those of us who have medical bills up the ass, it will be a real change that relieves a lot of people financially and gives them insurance for their future.
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  3. +Andrew Rothstein - The evidence and studies say exactly the opposite of what you're claiming. The Mercatus Center was only one organization that did a study on Medicare for All and they found it would cost $32 Trillion over a 10 year period, which completely lines up with what other studies have found. Where they differ though is that the Mercatus Center estimated that our current system would only cost around $34 Trillion over a 10 year period meaning that Medicare for All would save $2 Trillion total over 10 years. The problem with the Koch funded study though is that they never implemented a growth rate of the costs of our current system which predictably raises in costs by 5.4% every year. If we account for this rising in prices of our current broken healthcare system, you find that the current system would cost up to $49 Trillion over a 10 year period. Compared to the $32 Trillion cost of Medicare for All, this would save up to $17 TRILLION over 10 years and this is the more realistic estimate because it actually does realistic math unlike the Mercatus Center study funded by the Koch Brothers.
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  4. +Andrew Rothstein - Americans are getting price gouged by health insurance companies. Having to pay nothing for health insurance even IF the government has to slightly raise taxes will still save the vast majority of Americans thousands of dollars. Millennials have clearly thought about this far more and deeper than you have. Also, basically everyone is a millennial from age 33-35 and down so you're insulting nearly half the country by saying that. The older millennials have lived nearly half their lives already and they still get ridiculed for wanting better lives for themselves and their children.
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  5. The government is already in charge of Medicare and medicare is the number 2 most popular program in the country after Social Security which is also run by the government. Our healthcare system is loathed by nearly everyone, so how does it not make sense to expand Medicare for All to everyone
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  6. +Ellen Grace - If you have a serious illness, you won't have to wait. Surgery timelines are determined based on need and priority. Someone who needs an appendicitis operation is going to given top priority over someone who needs Lasik surgery.
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