The Post-ObamaCare World: Reality Check For Hypocrites?

[Marypoza]

(11-11-2016, 04:19 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(11-11-2016, 11:07 AM)Marypoza Wrote: Scuse me if this sounds lame, but what is so damn difficult about simply lowering the medicare age to 0?

It would be too expensive - like Obamacare, it would add subsidies to the cost of those who actually work and earn money - and medicare covers only marginal costs, not average costs, so without further increases in rates, the medical providers would go bankrupt.

-- it seems to it would be less expensive to expand an already existing agency than to be setting up these exchanges & whatnot from scratch. Also it's not like we don't have the $. lf we have $  to bomb ppl into oblivion  then we definitely have $ to expand medicare