Re:List price for stitches at Stanford Health Care: $93K
by rayiner on Sunday July 11, 2021 @01:44PM
(#27802961)
Except neither Sanders nor Warren have proposed a plan that would cost you only $10k in taxes to save you $25k in premiums. Even on paper, Warren’s plan costs the same as what Americans already pay in health care costs.
> Warren bases her plan off of a recent analysis from the Urban Institute, which estimated that under current law, Americans would spend $52 trillion over the next decade on health care — that includes many types of spending, from employers, individuals and all levels of government.
> Warren's plan estimates that total health costs could be held to $52 trillion and that $20.5 trillion in new federal spending would be necessary.
Like with schools (where America also pays more and gets less), most spending in the healthcare system is payroll. An American nurse makes twice what a UK NHS nurse makes. The idea that we can cut those costs meaningfully is laughable.
https://www.npr.org/2019/11/01/775339519/heres-how-warren-fi...
> Warren bases her plan off of a recent analysis from the Urban Institute, which estimated that under current law, Americans would spend $52 trillion over the next decade on health care — that includes many types of spending, from employers, individuals and all levels of government.
> Warren's plan estimates that total health costs could be held to $52 trillion and that $20.5 trillion in new federal spending would be necessary.
Like with schools (where America also pays more and gets less), most spending in the healthcare system is payroll. An American nurse makes twice what a UK NHS nurse makes. The idea that we can cut those costs meaningfully is laughable.