Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for March 22, 2020

It’s called TAXES. Mind you the tax will be less than your insurance but people won’t see it that way. How you like your insurance with the covid19 going around

There’s no such thing as a free launch….

Depends on how much money you make. The more money you make, the more taxes you pay (in theory).

Smart bird.

A bundle less 2 grand according to the Koch brothers and others. (In other words, your taxes will go up but you will end the year with $2,000 more spending money)

I think Medicare (real Medicare, not Medicare for All) should be a public option on insurance exchanges. Mine is managed by a private non-profit hospital chain and they do a great job.

It is good to see someone asking the right question.

“Free”? Who’s offering “free” healthcare? They’re just suggesting that your tax dollars be used to benefit you.

The answer to “Who would pay for universal healthcare?” We would, with a lot more help from those making more than $5 million year. The Medicare For All plan proposed by Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren would save taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars each year and would prevent tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths, a new study shows. The analysis, conducted by researchers at Yale University, the University of Florida and the University of Maryland, found that transitioning the U.S. to a single-payer health care system would actually save an estimated $450 billion each year, with the average American family seeing about $2,400 in annual savings. The research, which was published in the medical journal The Lancet, also found that Medicare for all would prevent about 68,000 unnecessary deaths per year. “Our study is actually conservative because it doesn’t factor in the lives saved among underinsured Americans—which includes anyone who nominally has insurance but has postponed or foregone care because they couldn’t afford the copays and deductibles,” Alison Galvani, an author of the study and researcher at the Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis at the Yale School of Public Health, told Newsweek. Overall, the new research anticipates annual savings of about 13 percent in national health care costs, while providing better health care access to lower-income families. According to the study, about 37 million Americans do not have health insurance, while an additional 41 million people do not have adequate health care coverage. Taken together, about 24 percent of the total population does not have health care coverage that can be expected to meet their future, and even current needs “The entire system could be funded with less financial outlay than is incurred by employers and households paying for health-care premiums combined with existing government allocations,” the authors wrote in the study.

This is a list of the countries that adopted universal health care, the date they adopted it, and the date they gave it up because of all the problems:

Australia1975Still Going

Austria1967Still Going

Bahrain1957Still Going

Belgium1945Still Going

Brunei1958Still Going

Canada1966Still Going

Cyprus1980Still Going

Denmark1973Still Going

Finland1972Still Going

France1974Still Going

Germany1941Still Going

Greece1983Still Going

Hong Kong1993Still Going

Iceland1990Still Going

Ireland1977Still Going

Isael1995Still Going

Italy1978Still Going

Japan1938Still Going

Kuwait1950Still Going

Luxembourg1971Still Going

Netherlands1966Still Going

New Zealand1938Still Going

Norway1912 Still Going

Portugal1979Still Going

Singapore1993Still Going

Slovenia1972Still Going

South Korea1988Still Going

Spain1986Still Going

Sweden1994Still Going

United Arab Emirates1971 Still Going

Untied Kingdom1948Still Going

We saw signs of that cost with Obamacare, $6000 a month on average.

You’ll be DEAD before that happens buddy !!! Lol

We have National Health Care Insurance (IESS) here in Ecuador plus free care for those who can’t afford to pay for the insurance, and private clinics and private insurance for those who chose to use it. Most of the upper-income citizens do use private physicians and clinics at a cost a fraction of the cost of medical care in the U.S. Private doctors, specialists, and dentist visits run from $15 to $35 depending on the doctor and what needs be done.

I am 75 and my wife 60 and our IESS cost is $83 per month for both of us for complete coverage ( no co-pays here ). Since I’ve lived here I have had both eyes operated on for cataract removal and a lens implant, two skin cancer biopsies – one requiring plastic surgery – and two _complete- physical examinations done for virtually no cost! Couldn’t do that in the States…

How much will it cost? Well, at least half of all your income.However the more important cost to you: Lost life and more suffering due to rationing. Less choice, lower quality, less access.Those are the real costs.

Excellent question!

I see that we have some new names of commenters here today.

It has been said that the latest Russian propaganda attacks were going to be more subtle.

no one can answer that question – even the ones who think they don’t have to pay a cent – because someone else somewhere paid for it – nice freeloading – works if you can get it. BUT somewhere someone paid for you!!!!! governments DO NOT MAKE money – they may print it but none of them anywhere in the world MAKE money – they just spend someone else’s.

Must be middle class. I know the 1%ers wouldn’t even ask that question since they don’t pay anything.

MORE!

Don’t ask if you don’t want to know!

Rule of Capitalism #1: nothing but nothing is free!

Much less – the current US system is insanely expensive.

I hope they pay P. J. O’Rourke a royalty for ripping off his line.

Free health care is the main thing I miss about Canada. It’s free because you don’t need a job or pay taxes to see a doctor.