r/FluentInFinance 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/imdstuf 11d ago

Not taking sides against a public health care option, but this definitely sounds like a people trying to to fit the math to come out to the answer they want. Someone else could fund a study coming to a different conclusion and we would not know if either would turn out to be true.

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u/water_g33k 11d ago

You mean like when the libertarian Mercatus Center did a study accidentally showing single payer healthcare would save Americans $140,000,000,000 a year?