Minority rule

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(10-21-2020, 12:01 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: You're confusing single-payer with socialized medicine. Single-payer is Medicare for everyone, which Medicare is actually an efficiently run system. Socialized medicine is like the VA system or the NHS over in the UK. Two different ideas, and the latter isn't what is being advocated for.

Thanks, I was. In that case...

Isn't there a pretty big cost attached to Medicare for everyone? Looked it up and saw 58 million people were covered in 2017 and it cost $706b.. if you figure x6 for the whole population, that's roughly $4.24tr dollars a year assuming there isn't increased cost/waste with the increased size of the system. That's... a significant amount.

Also I am always hesitant for a solution that includes people paying into something that they don't want/need. Would there be the ability to opt out if you want?

Anything that requires people to pay into something they may not want in order for everyone else to get something always seems an awful lot like a pyramid scheme (*cough*Social Security*cough*) or at least exploitative. Doubly so if you're young and healthy.