Medicare alone covers 40 million people (that's more than 13%). Also it only covers the elderly, the disabled, and people with End-Stage Renal Disease. In other words, the most expensive 13% of the population, maybe by an order of magnitude.
Maybe you should put that cluehammer back before you hurt yourself.
Well, if you want to be picky about math let me be a little more careful about my numbers. 295b + 250b = 545b 545b / 13 = 41.9b 41.9b * 100b = 4190b Lets cut this in half to account for other factors. 2 Trillion. A "meer" 95% of the federal budget.
I'm not being picky about the math. You're assuming that young, healthy Americans will have exactly the same medical expenses that the old or disabled ones currently on Medicare do. And that's simply not true.
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Medicare alone covers 40 million people (that's more than 13%). Also it only covers the elderly, the disabled, and people with End-Stage Renal Disease. In other words, the most expensive 13% of the population, maybe by an order of magnitude.
Maybe you should put that cluehammer back before you hurt yourself.
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295b + 250b = 545b
545b / 13 = 41.9b
41.9b * 100b = 4190b
Lets cut this in half to account for other factors.
2 Trillion. A "meer" 95% of the federal budget.
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