Seeing you say that, I decided to stop a second and do the maths. With this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Americans_by_net_worth … and the estimate that there are 600 total american billionaires, I ballpark their combined net worth as being 3.5 trillion...
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Replying to @hamish_todd @Jonathan_Blow and
And Medicare for All, for example, would be ~$30T over the next 10 years. You’d need more billionaires.
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Replying to @bentruyman @hamish_todd and
I didn't do the math. But how the fuck a poor country like Brazil can do decent public and great, cheap private healthcare? And in the USA it's literally impossible? I mean, I get it, economy is not easy and trivial solutions don't work. But saying this wouldn't work is weird.
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Replying to @sohakes @bentruyman and
Because the actual problem is the healthcare sector is "overpaid", meaning it takes way more money to run it than it should. It has nothing to do with billionaires, but it's easier to claim that than to point out that the "medical industrial complex" is a disaster.
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Replying to @cmuratori @sohakes and
Personally, I think healthcare in the US could be fixed almost overnight by simply enacting some laws designed to foster competition in healthcare. Instead, nearly 100% of our healthcare laws are designed to prevent it (patents, licensing, liability, etc.)
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Replying to @cmuratori @sohakes and
The problem, of course, is that the prevailing political atmosphere is not conducive to enacting those laws, so, there we are.
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Replying to @cmuratori @bentruyman and
I agree. But I also think that people saying US can't afford public healthcare are wrong. It just doesn't make sense looking at every other country with public healthcare. I'm not even sure if you need to raise taxes tbh (but raising for the upper brackets of earning is a start).
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Replying to @sohakes @cmuratori and
Sometimes I feel people calculate the price of healthcare based on the current extremely inflated prices, which are not the real cost, as you said.
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Replying to @sohakes @bentruyman and
Yes, absolutely. The likely actual situation is that a) the US could absolutely pay for universal healthcare if we drastically changed the regulation regime for it, and also b) the US could just continue to have private healthcare if we did the same.
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The one thing we _can't_ do is continue to pretend that someone the current costs are reasonable.
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Replying to @cmuratori @sohakes and
If anyone is interested, this 100 page report by the Word Bank dives a little bit on the implementation of the Brazilian health system 30 years ago. It’s downsides and upsides. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266969625_Twenty_Years_of_Health_System_Reform_in_Brazil_An_Assessment_of_the_Sistema_Unico_de_Saude … I haven't read everything yet, but it might bring some ideas to the debate.
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