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发帖数: 238 | 1 California Single-payer healthcare cost twice as much as budget
California is a big state with a nearly $200 billion annual budget.
California is a big state with a nearly $200 billion annual budget. It's
also a liberal state, where some lawmakers want to create a universal single
-payer healthcare system.
Today, they got an estimate from the state's legislative analysts of how
much such a system would cost: $400 billion per year.
This is not quite as big as total national spending on Medicaid (about $553
billion last year), or the Pentagon's budget for defending all 50 states and
much of the world besides (about $585 billion), but it's on the same order
of magnitude. And it's a whole heck of a lot more money than exists in
California's state budget currently.
Granted, not all of the money for CaliforniCare would have to be produced
from nothing. If you take all of the money that California and its
municipalities currently spend (some with federal help) on Medicaid and
healthcare and public health and redirect everything to this new system,
that leaves you a mere $200 billion short, or more than 100 percent of the
state budget.
If you then turn around and increase taxes on all the individuals and
businesses whom your plan aims to relieve of the financial burdens of
healthcare, you could conceivably get another $100 billion to $150 billion
without making them spend more money on aggregate (although one can imagine
this would not be easy to redistribute fairly, and there will be some big
losers in the process).
So in the end, the plan would create an estimated annual shortfall of merely
$50 billion to $100 billion, or between 25 and 50 percent of the current
budget. That's...well, that sounds like a great way to get people to move to
Texas.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/california-lawmakers-discover-single-payer-would-cost-twice-as-much-as-the-state-budget/article/2623834 | w*****2
发帖数: 1458 | | i*****9
发帖数: 3157 | 3 那是东海岸的左逼吧。加州这边已经开始给共产主义平反了，那帮progressive很快就
能堂堂正正的宣称自己是共产主义者了。
【在 w*****2 的大作中提到】
: 说共产主义还真有左B不认
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