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by TomSwirly 1570 days ago
By my calculations, you are way off.

Giving free healthcare to all the illegal immigrants would cost $100 billion; switching the single payer would save Americans a trillion.

> It sounds nice, until you think about the obvious result.

Making up a nice story isn't really "thinking". Let's see your actual numbers.

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> Giving free healthcare to all the illegal immigrants would cost $100 billion; switching the single payer would save Americans a trillion.

> Making up a nice story isn't really "thinking". Let's see your actual numbers.

Let's see yours. Trusting a politician's estimate for a bureaucrat's dream money pit is naivete at its peak.

According to this article: https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/01/416416/single-payer-system..., savings of 3.5% are likely in the first year of a single payer plan.

Edit: according to Bernie Sanders' plan, the total cost would be $32 trillion over 10 years. Here's a nice article debunking that claim: https://www.factcheck.org/2018/08/the-cost-of-medicare-for-a...