2020 Presidential Election

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(03-04-2020, 10:09 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: All numbers are presented over 10 years in this post:

The numbers don't work out. For a long time, Bernie cited $30t as the low end cost of his plan (others say $34-40t). This recent study (written by a campaign advisor) quotes $17t (all of these numbers so far are "in additional spending") with total costs being $47t in national healthcare spending.

Bernie is suggesting that all federal healthcare spending ($30t) be merged with this $17t in new revenue, but that $30t goes to just more than healthcare. It's also funding things like the CDC and NIH. The $17t additional price tag also doesn't take into account the $2.5t long term care program and assumes hospital reimbursement cuts that are not part of Bernie's plan. 

Bernie has always been hesitant to fully explain spending and exit polling last night showed that Biden actually won voters whose primary issue was health care.

Which is very odd because not a single person is demanding Biden explain a single one of his policies. I have no idea what Biden's healthcare plan. Even his own website is light on details.

The only thing he's said about his healthcare plan in debates was "My plan makes a limit of co-pays to be $1,000."

What does that mean? You got me. Was he talking about deductible? Max Out of Pocket? Or did he actually mean co-pay? In which case, that's not a thing people care about because co-pays rarely (or maybe never) reach $1,000...

I think people just fear change. they've been convinced that insurance companies are somehow not bad for us as a country and are unwilling to risk what they consider a non-life threatening system (even though it is) for a chance at an exceptional system.

But Biden is better than Trump, so it's a start, I guess.