US Universal Healthcare: How are we going to pay for it?

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highwaystar101 said:

CommunistHater said:
It would cost over 3 trillion a year. You have to double every tax.

Lemme guess, did FOX news tell you that bullshit? The NHS only costs £94 Billion in 2008/9 (source) and that served the entire of England. So how is a country that has 7 times the population going to cost 30 times more to run?!?!?

Do yourself a favour and stop listening to the right wing on this subject for just a second and think for yourself.

Perhaps not $3 trillion but pretty close.

£94 billion = $155 billion USD.

$155 billion x 7 (population diference) = $1.085 trillion.

$1.085 trillion x expensiture difference of 2.45 = $2.659 trillion.

 

See the chart back on page 1?  Notice the total expenditures per person between the US and UK.   So your £94 billion health care would cost us $2.659 trillion.