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Kimchijeon

(1,606 posts) Thu Mar 9, 2017, 04:58 PM Mar 2017

Billions for a wall? Or healthcare?

Would you rather:

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	Spend fraction of that Bam, Single payer healthcare
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Billions for a wall? Or healthcare? (Original Post) Kimchijeon Mar 2017 OP

A fraction of 14 billion for single payer? ileus Mar 2017 #1

Maybe if we weren't overcharged for every needed service, bunnies Mar 2017 #2

That wall funding COULD go to preventive care visits. Dave Starsky Mar 2017 #3

ileus

(15,396 posts)

1. A fraction of 14 billion for single payer?

Reply to Kimchijeon (Original post)

Thu Mar 9, 2017, 05:06 PM

Mar 2017

If single payer was implemented you can bet it would be in the Trillion + a year range to cover everyone.

My wife had over 75k in surgeries last year alone.

bunnies

(15,859 posts)

2. Maybe if we weren't overcharged for every needed service,

Reply to ileus (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 9, 2017, 05:14 PM

Mar 2017

The cost would be more doable. There's no good reason for us to pay so much more for health than the rest of the civilized world. Pisses me off.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)

3. That wall funding COULD go to preventive care visits.

Reply to ileus (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 9, 2017, 05:26 PM

Mar 2017

To ensure that people stay healthy and out of the ER and hospital. Along with ridiculously priced meds, those are the huge cost drivers. People are afraid to go to the doctor for "that mole that looks weird", until it becomes full-blown melanoma.

But this is all academic. If we chose to spend the X billion dollars on free ice cream cones at local ice cream parlors, it would be a better use of public funds than this stupid fucking wall.

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