I'm indifferent to bernie's claims honestly. the point I'm making is that just switching people over to medicare/medicaid is a win for efficiency and costs because the 20% overhead of private insurers for profits + operating costs drop to 2%. savings of 18% right off the bat.
that part is absolutely a zero sum game.
now once you start adding in the rest of the plan the costs go up but that is a result of actual improvements in benefits (a good thing).
when I said worst case I was picking from studies unrelated to bernie's platform that showed an increase vs current system projects spending but it was modest. 700 billion/year in additional costs beyond what bernie has accounted for. and that is using the most expensive analysis I could find.
its probably not going to work quite that cleanly in reality. but the numbers are close enough that its worth it for our country to move to single payer with the additional benefits.
here is one of the sources I used to pull total costs from. most of the stuff I found personally ended up below their estimates. politifact's range is actually far less than the one I used by almost 20 trillion.
that part is absolutely a zero sum game.
now once you start adding in the rest of the plan the costs go up but that is a result of actual improvements in benefits (a good thing).
when I said worst case I was picking from studies unrelated to bernie's platform that showed an increase vs current system projects spending but it was modest. 700 billion/year in additional costs beyond what bernie has accounted for. and that is using the most expensive analysis I could find.
its probably not going to work quite that cleanly in reality. but the numbers are close enough that its worth it for our country to move to single payer with the additional benefits.
here is one of the sources I used to pull total costs from. most of the stuff I found personally ended up below their estimates. politifact's range is actually far less than the one I used by almost 20 trillion.
https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/dont-confuse-changes-federa...
--- this is a document i wrote up for my friends/family on the topic has all my sources and various other commentary.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-4-fYlRSRvtCar98APl6PzLL...