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

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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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How much would we save if overweight adults dropped to below 20%?

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The sad thing is that the thing preventing Medicare for All from being a reality is basically also responsible for our morbid obesity problem here: corporate profit.

There is so much artificial sugar added to our everyday foods because it’s addictive and keeps consumers coming back. The obesity, heart disease and diabetes epidemic continues to feed our broken healthcare system and they also profit.

It sounds conspiratorial, but it really is just the byproduct of the fact that our society values corporate profit above all and we’ve been indoctrinated into believing that anything that even remotely inhibits unchecked profit is sacrilege.