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Exactly the health care costs are less for businesses. But that's not coming through efficiencies but largely through the US government picking up the tab for i

Exactly the health care costs are less for businesses. But that's not coming through efficiencies but largely through the US government picking up the tab for it. Which is completely fine because it's what happens elsewhere in the world. But there is no discussion around the impacts to budgets and taxpayers which is the challenge the faced Australia and UK for example.

codegeek 7y ago
You are underestimating the record profits that insurance companies make. Those will not be needed since Govt. is not in it to make money. That is another efficiency.
- spaginal 7y ago
  Government is anything but efficient, or cheap. You will end up with multiple redundant bureaucracies overlapping the same areas, spending tax money and blowing up budgets like it's going out of style, skyrocketing our already skyrocketed national debt, and you will lose any choice in the matter. Good luck trimming those departments and fixing the bloat once it's implemented, because our federal government cannot do that even now. This article is pie in the sky, it doesn't reflect the realities of the bloat and cost already present in our government. The most efficiently ran part of our government is the military, and the amount of black holes in the accounting, the cost, it makes your eyes simply boggle.
  - fzeroracer 7y ago
    >The most efficiently ran part of our government is the military I mean that's just objectively wrong. The US Postal Service is likely the most efficient among government agencies. Medicare is also very efficient even compared to private insurance. So I'm not sure where this fear of inefficiency is coming from when we're going to leverage one of the most efficient government programs in the US. And I'm more curious as to why people even care about the national debt bullshit anymore considering we've seen one side be completely willing to blow up the deficit for the sake of giving the rich socialism.

codegeek 7y ago

You are underestimating the record profits that insurance companies make. Those will not be needed since Govt. is not in it to make money. That is another efficiency.

spaginal 7y ago
Government is anything but efficient, or cheap. You will end up with multiple redundant bureaucracies overlapping the same areas, spending tax money and blowing up budgets like it's going out of style, skyrocketing our already skyrocketed national debt, and you will lose any choice in the matter. Good luck trimming those departments and fixing the bloat once it's implemented, because our federal government cannot do that even now. This article is pie in the sky, it doesn't reflect the realities of the bloat and cost already present in our government. The most efficiently ran part of our government is the military, and the amount of black holes in the accounting, the cost, it makes your eyes simply boggle.
- fzeroracer 7y ago
  >The most efficiently ran part of our government is the military I mean that's just objectively wrong. The US Postal Service is likely the most efficient among government agencies. Medicare is also very efficient even compared to private insurance. So I'm not sure where this fear of inefficiency is coming from when we're going to leverage one of the most efficient government programs in the US. And I'm more curious as to why people even care about the national debt bullshit anymore considering we've seen one side be completely willing to blow up the deficit for the sake of giving the rich socialism.