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/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/[deleted] 11d ago

Remember “we could solve world hunger forever for $5 billion!”

This is just another one of those

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u/LivesInALemon 11d ago

More like, 30-50 billion every year for the next decade. And that isn't exactly all of world hunger solved, IIRC it's just extreme hunger... but still beats 9 million dying from it each year by a landslide.

Still doable though, just check how much money the richest people have for doing nothing effectively significant.

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u/[deleted] 10d ago

World hunger isn't a money issue. It's a political issue.