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"Medicare For All" is a misnomer. It is misleading on purpose. Let me explain

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04-30-2019, 12:37 PM

(04-30-2019, 11:39 AM)mikesez Wrote:
(04-30-2019, 09:48 AM)jj82284 Wrote: You're right.  Our GDP to Debt Ratio would be a lot better if we didn't adopt a system of redistributing our defense and medical resources to our "Allies"

Let's do some math on that.
We spend about 4% of our GDP on defense.
They spend about 2% only. That does make a difference, 2%.
But we spend about 17% of GDP on health care (7.5% comes from public, 9.5% from private sector), while they spend about 11% (8.5% public sector, 2.5% private sector).
They actually spend less on both.
The 2% of GDP they save on defense doesn't seem to explain anything that's going on with their health care system.

Yeah, it's a real head scratcher.

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"And in terms of estimates of absolute numbers of people with diabetes in these nations, the U.S., with almost 30 million people with diabetes, has around two thirds the number of cases of all the other 37 nations in the developed nation league combined (46 million)."

As a result of our poor living we end up spending nearly $20k per person more than other countries during the last 36 months of life, mostly treating chronic conditions like Type 2. That accounts for 24% of all health expenditures, a number that is multiple percentage points higher than other developed nations. We spend thousands of dollars trying to fix self-inflicted problems causes by decades of bad decisions. But it's the System's fault!
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RE: "Medicare For All" is a misnomer. It is misleading on purpose. Let me explain - by flsprtsgod - 04-30-2019, 12:37 PM



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