US Politics on Sidechat | Democrats need to understand that you can’t just throw money into a broken system and expect it to be better. We spend more money on healthcare per capita than any other nation yet we are 34th in life expectancy, near the bottom of the barrel for OECD.

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Democrats need to understand that you can’t just throw money into a broken system and expect it to be better. We spend more money on healthcare per capita than any other nation yet we are 34th in life expectancy, near the bottom of the barrel for OECD.

Anonymous 3w

Unless they throw money into a broken system in ways that actually remedy the system Like creating/bolstering social programs/agencies/resources that'd directly benefit we the people, while funneling money away from bullshit and bodies serving corporate greed and general evil (like the billions upon billions upon billions of dollars that've been pumped into ICE in the past couple of years)

Anonymous 3w

yes but unfortunately that truth gets parsed as “spend less bc it’s pointless” instead of “build better systems with the resources we’re already allocating”

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Anonymous 3w

Budget cuts wouldn’t even come close to paying for a new system. Low end estimates over 10 years are 30-40 trillion in health care costs if you went to single payer. This would required a national VAT, which we don’t have, higher payroll taxes, and higher income taxes. You’d never get it passed.

Anonymous 3w

Medicare for all is the way

Anonymous

#2 3w

im all for being more efficient. But i want to see the system change to become more efficient and effective first and then afterwards the budget might shrink to reflect the efficiency

Anonymous

#2 3w

I agree with you. However, not all budget cuts are bad though because many people just see numbers and think a lower budget on healthcare for example is inherently bad. I think Trump’s healthcare cuts are premature and a net negative, but I also think that there needs to be more incentives for efficiency. For example: politicians who increase efficiency on healthcare and cut the budget because they don’t need as much money will get punished simply because most people see numbers go down = bad.

Anonymous

#2 3w

GDP is a great analogy of this concept, because it is a mesure of quantity and not quality.

Anonymous

___joker__ 3w

Well let’s see the government is already gonna spend over $20 trillion on Medicare/Medicaid/ACA over the next 10 years. And increased taxes would basically just replace premiums/copays/deductibles that go towards for profit insurance companies but with better coverage and less headache. Not to mention businesses not having to offer insurance as part of compensation would mean they could pay better wages instead