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Antifar posted...

Our current system would cost $300 billion more to cover fewer people

http://peoplespolicyproject.org/2018/07/30/mercatus-study-finds-medicare-for-all-saves-300-billion/

The reports methods are pretty straightforward. Blahous starts with current projections about how much the country will spend on health care between 2022 and 2031. From there, he adds the costs associated with higher utilization of medical services and then subtracts the savings from lower administrative costs, lower reimbursements for medical services, and lower drug prices. After this bit of arithmetic, Blahous finds that health expenditures would be lower for every year during the first decade of implementation. The net change across the whole 10-year period is a savings of $303 billion.

You'd just rather pay premiums and co-pays than taxes.

well the idea is that with taxes, health care would be subsidized by everyone, as opposed to copays which are only paid by the sick/people who need coverage for something.

it's socialism. Get the healthy to help pay for the sick so the sick don't go bankrupt. some people like this idea, and others do not.

unsurprisingly, the people who are benefitting the most from it are fans, and the people who lose out don't like it.