11-11-2016, 08:09 PM
(11-11-2016, 08:03 PM)Marypoza Wrote:(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
Obamacare is cheaper because it relies on people who work to pay for their own health care, either directly or through their employers.
Medicare costs $600 billion per year. The Iraq and Afghanistan wars, at their peak, cost $100 billion per year. Fixing people is more expensive than breaking them.