How long could we have provided healthcare for every American

[TNDemo]

for what we have spent in Iraq so far?

[papau]

1. Providng universal health with an option for a Medicare like Plan may well save us money - but there

a few social programs and infrastructure renewals that could have got done - and paying down the debt that our kids inherit is not a bad thing to do.

Indeed the Social Security/Medicare crisis doesn't really exist - Social Security on the 3rd of the official projections never has a problem, and a simple increase in the Reagan retirement age of 67 to 70 (keeping early retirement at 62) beginning in the year 2030 and ending in the year 2066 makes the second (also called the middle or "official") projection look healthy.

But lifting - indeed removing - the SS wage cap - while still providing benefits based on all wages taxed so as to not convert to a welfare program, and getting universal are long overdue for other reasons.

[Red Zelda]

2. How to do it:

Nationalize the oil companies and use the profits for health care.

[ileus]

3. 6 months maybe...prolly less n/t

[Toots]

5. Ignorance is bliss

:shrug:

[TheUniverse]

4. Accordign to this website, we could have insured 271 million for one year.

http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_content&Itemid=207&id=319&task=view