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Assuming your numbers are true
azstrummer — (archived)

Let's now take away the burden from every American covered of not having to pay for copays, medications, deductibles, premiums. If that gets added to their tax burden then it's no net gain and subtracts from your total amount of revenue that has to be generated. I'd much rather pay up front than get hit with it piecemeal at times when cash flow is low. I think most people would.

Also offset the amount of additional profit American industry will gain once the burden of providing health care benefits to their employees is removed. When American industry profits there's this, wait let me see if I have this term right, "trickle-down" effect on the economy.

Now let's take out the costs to an average American taxpayer associated with men and women that are in the workforce for one sole purpose - to secure health insurance. Many of those people are wives and mothers who then have child care expenses added to their burden. Often these folks also take jobs away from the market that others can't get.

Let's also remember the hit that our hospitals have at their emergency rooms. Nobody now compensates them for having to treat uninsured people but by law they can turn nobody away. A universal system would reimburse them for that.

Let's also factor in that studies have shown that the costs for patients that have regular preventative care are less than those that only see the doctor when emergencies strike.

Let's throw in the costs involved to the economy from bankruptcies resulting from medical bills. You are aware that that is the single greatest factor for people defaulting on their financial obligations right?

How about subtracting the cost of litigation that inevitably results from denial of service or claims now?

When you truly analyze it instead of sticking to the talking points you can go on and on finding ways that the overall cost to the American public is drastically reduced in the end. You stick with your figures Tom. As always they leave out the common sense.

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