US President Donald Trump railed against Medicare for All during an Oval Office event on Tuesday, falsely claiming the proposal would be prohibitively expensive and ineffective despite new research confirming it would save lives and cost significantly less than the corporate-dominated status quo.
The president’s remarks came during an event touting his limited, voluntary, and secretive agreements with leading pharmaceutical companies, deals purportedly aimed at lowering drug prices. Trump again lied by claiming that his efforts are “much bigger” than Medicare for All, which would provide comprehensive health coverage to every person in the US for free at the point of service, eliminating premiums, copays, and deductibles.
Trump said that Medicare for All, which has not been tried at a national level in the US, “doesn’t work,” falsely claiming a single-payer system would cost “the entire budget of the whole country” and send taxes into the stratosphere.
Even if it were true, such spending would be better than on endless wars and tax cuts for trillionaires. This kind of spending would also prevent the people spending on guillotines, especially with the ai displacing workers. They’re already threatening guillotines, so it’d be an investment in having a stable society if anything
Yup. America currently pays about 12-15k per capita while a lot of other developed nations pay about 4-8k
And that extra money buys worse outcomes.
Another thing that’s not discussed enough is that universal healthcare also reduces other insurance premiums, because (for example, in the case of car insurance) one of the costs to be covered is healthcare costs for someone else who is injured. The same goes for homeowner and employer liability for accidents.