Free market think tank: capitalism seeks efficiency, and GDP is a measure of how well the economy is doing

Medicare for all: makes health care more efficient

Think tank: you bastards, you incinerated $1T in GDP!

I think you mean, $1T in "profits". /s

Fewer deaths? Less industry profits? No wonder the rich will never let it happen. 😡

Saving 100k lives sounds great, but it would negatively effect shareholder value. Which makes it dirty dirty socialism, which is basically communism. Can't have that now...

$1 T... being taken by parasites. Not just any parasite but ones that prey and pray on the misfortune and deaths of others.

I'd sooner bat an eye if a mosquito got swatted than if they came across an Italian plumber. It's obscene that our laws and "leaders" allow them to walk around free.

It’s so weird that anyone votes republican to me. They’re so obsessed with cultural issues that they don’t care if it burns the whole country into the ground.

I also believe that centrist democrats push cultural issues for the same reason just to keep the general public from looking towards the wealthy and the exploitation of the working people.

How many politicians and ceos have to be Luigi'd before we can act on this?

So every board member of every health insurance company needs to by tried for murder by extortion of 114,000 Americans per year

From that perspective, it's an amazing idea. Makes you wonder why it hasn't happened

From the propsective of the ultra-wealthy though, it will cost them 1 trillion in profits. Then you realize why they fight it so much

And cut out the oligarchs middlemen? 😲

If reasonable healthcare was available without employment, the working class would feel substantially more empowered and might even consider such capitalist sacrilege as a general strike. Oligarchs can’t risk it, even if it would appear to increase the profitability of their businesses by removing an enormous part of the cost of labor. They like the chains.

This doesn't even consider that health insurance costs are the main factor keeping jobs out of the USA.

huh. i would've thought we'd just all get standard healthcare similar to a lot of countries. Bonuses didn't cross my mind

But think of the poor insurance company CEOs whose kids might be doomed to flying commercial! 😭

Still won't.

1T/100k = $10m per life saved, surely people are not millions in medical debt? Am i stupid?

Yeah, but then 14% of the GDP wouldn't be a source of wealth (though their ownership of Private Healthcare and Healthcare Insurance ) for the tiny slice of society who are members of the Asset Owner class.

Surelly 114 thousand more dead Americans every year is a price worth paying to allow the fatcats to take a slice of a $3.4 trillion cake that's twice as large as it would otherwise need to be (Healthcare as percentage of GDP in countries with universal healthcare is only around 7-8%)

But how does it create shareholder value?!?

It would save more and more money the longer it runs too.

Preventative care and annual checkups are huge.

A healthcare system that knows its going to provide care from birth to death, is going to be choke full of long term preventative care and early detections.

They're not going to ignore a potential issue, because they're on the hook later for it too.

With insurance tied to employment, they just have to wait till you lose your job and they don't have to keep paying.

This doesn’t benefit billionaires and or corporations so not important.

Let's reverse the headline: They are killing 114,000 people to steal 1,000,000,000,000 $ from you. Every year. For decades now.

Luigi should have been the beginning not the end.

The administration doesn’t want to save lives

Luckily for Republicans, they don't know the meaning of the word study.

The goal is not to save people or save government money.

So… you’re saying that Medicare for All would remove $1T from the economy? Can’t have that now, can we?

Yeah, but the administration wants to kill people.

Save lives, why would rump and friends want to do that? It’s not like they’re trying to get people to have kids or anything. /s