No. of Recommendations: 3
My strategy would be let the regime shred the ACA entirely. People have forgotten what it was like before the ACA. Let insurance companies run wild. The GOP will wear the consequences. Then, in 28, the Dems bring a real national health plan.
!. Things have gotten worse under the ACA, not better. Look at the cost explosions.
2. Insurance companies are richer than ever...thanks to the ACA.
3. A nationwide single payer system would cost north of $2 trillion per year.
Vermont has a population of only ~650,000. They estimated that doing a single payer plan for every Vermont resident would be between $1.6B and $2.5 Billion.
Let's say it's $2billion. That's only $3,077 per resident. Multiply that by 342 million Americans and you get a little over a trillion dollars EACH AND EVERY year. Plus the government seizing control of about 18% of the US economy.
No thanks. The cost estimate is likely off by at least 2x.
