r/FluentInFinance • u/The-Lucky-Investor • 11d ago

“Medicare for All” would save the U.S $5.1 Trillion over 10 years Discussion/ Debate

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/11/30/easy-pay-something-costs-less-new-study-shows-medicare-all-would-save-us-51-trillion
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u/CheckYoDunningKrugr 11d ago

Which is why it won't happen. Somebody (somebodies) won't make 5.1 Trillions dollars. Cheaper to buy a congress than to take that kind of loss.

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u/Freethecrafts 11d ago

It’s actually way more than that over ten years. The study numbers are very conservative.

You could buy all of congress, every vote, for a few billion. You could buy Congress for less than the bonus increases that happen year over year. That’s why it’ll never happen.

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u/thatnameagain 7d ago

It won’t happen because nobody votes for it. Once Americans vote for progressive candidates who support universal healthcare in primaries and then in the general election, so that Congress is majority progressive, it will happen. Which is why it won’t happen. Nobody is voting for it