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Re:Health system sues thousands of patients, seizes pay and ... by ceejayoz on Monday September 09, 2019 @08:51PM (#20924134)
> The CBO estimates it will cost $3 trillion a year to provide universal healthcare.

That’s not $3T on top of what we currently spend, though. It just moves payments that go to insurers over into taxes. We already spend that $3T (and more!) on health care.

We know from the rest of the developed world that this is cheaper, too.

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Re:Health system sues thousands of patients, seizes pay and ... by AstralStorm on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @12:53AM (#20925133)
The single payer could force it to be cheaper. Much cheaper. In Poland we scrape by with 5% PKB which is 26 billion USD. But there's not enough doctors and nurses.
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Re:Health system sues thousands of patients, seizes pay and ... by BruiseLee on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @08:03AM (#20927253)
PKB=GDP (in case anyone is confused).
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