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AP has the following calming health care reform article: When Medicare is the piggy bank. Rob Peter to pay Blue Cross.
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Per capita health care spending (2007):
United States: $7290
Switzerland: $4417
France: $3601
United Kingdom: $2992
Average of OECD developed nations: $2964
Italy: $2686
Japan: $2581
-- Bob Somerby
The text of HR676 (Medicare For All) as PDF (30 pages). The FAQ. Compare HR3200 with HR676.
Medicare for All would save $350 billion a year (study in New England Journal of Medicine).
In 2003, a young Illinois state senator named Barack Obama told an AFL-CIO meeting, "I am a proponent of a single-payer universal healthcare program*." -- Bill Moyers.
* Medicare For All.
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no mention of medicare going broke...
The real problem here is that that the medicare trust fund is going broke, and that assigning savings from Medicare to subsidizing care means that none of the money is being used to extend the life of the medicare trust fund.
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To me, this looks like a giant shell game -- because medicare savings are not being assigned to medicare, the annual deficit will start to expand substantially starting in 2017. But because medicare expenditures and receipts are already part of the CBO projections, additional debt created by medicare will "score as zero".