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Universal Health Care Might Cost You Less Than You Think
- wahern 8y agoEven when you take into account existing expenditures, you're still on the hook for a huge amount of money. The California Senate Appropriations Committee estimate for universal healthcare in California was $400 billion, $200 billion more than all existing expenditures including premiums. See https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article151960182.html https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-aler... The only way forward is to tweak Obamacare some more, which in terms of cost control has been hit & miss (as predicted by its authors, FWIW). We need to become better at cost control before we jump to universal healthcare. If we don't do that first then the healthcare lobby will takes the budgetary reigns the same way that the defense lobby has with defense spending, and costs will continue to balloon.