12-05-2015, 12:42 PM
(12-04-2015, 10:52 PM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: The billion I mentioned was arbitrary and isn't spread over 300 million people. Let's use your number, $2T+. Five percent of $2+ trillion after costs is 100 billion, right? One hundred billion relative to 2 trillion is peanuts, but still a shit load.
The billion you mentioned WAS arbitrary, and I used it to make the point that what you THINK sounds like a lot of money ISN'T when spread over 300M+ people. It's a lot less than $100B, because Healthcare Insurance isn't all of, or even most of, the $2T+ industry.
Insurance is an easy target - that's what pandering, scapegoating politicians tend to do to round up sheeple to vote for them. It's actually a very small piece of the solution.
Yes, IT IS PEANUTS...and look at how distracted you are and jimmies rustled over peanuts (which, has very debatable benefits when you consider some of the negatives mentioned) instead of demanding real solutions.
