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/redditusersmostlysuc 11d ago

WTF is the point of your answer around political parties. His question is what if they dropped weight, not who they voted for.

BTW, the older a person gets, the more conservative (Republican) and fatter they get. So...

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u/unclejoe1917 11d ago

I believe the point is that republicans like to deflect the cause of our exorbitant healthcare costs away from the best way to pay for healthcare to stuff like, "well, if we weren't such a fat country, we wouldn't be spending so much on healthcare." It absolves the private insurance model because, god forbid we get " ThE sOcIaLiSm"

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u/BigPlantsGuy 11d ago

I was just looking at obesity rates and noticed that all the fattest states are republicans and all the least fat states are democratic.

Political party correlated much better with the obesity rate than obesity rate does with avg age in the state

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u/Jesse1472 11d ago

You seem to heavily suggest weight is tied to political party. At least that’s what any sane person would determine when reading a “it’s crazy” statement. Then you go on to offer nothing of economic savings in response to the person asking about the saving of lowering obesity. Your comment was way out in left field looking for a way to spin it into politics.

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u/BigPlantsGuy 11d ago

I don’t see how a sane person can think medicare 4 all is not political.

Obesity rates by state is strongly correlated to political party in power. I am not suggesting that. I am saying it directly

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u/Jesse1472 11d ago

See now that comment has some substance to it. You actually contributed to the discussion beyond just some cryptic response. You didn’t address the point in the original comment asking about economic savings still, but at least in this response I could tell you are saying “access to medical care for everyone has a greater impact than cutting obesity”.

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u/BigPlantsGuy 11d ago

If you want a stance: we would save tens of trillions in healthcare if republicans were not in power anywhere.