In 2008 enrollment in Medicare was 44 million people.
In 2008 Medicare was budgeted $325 billion.
That's $7386 per participant.
Extrapolated to include all 300 million Americans would mean that the 2008 budget requirement would need to be $2.2 trillion.
Medicare doesn't come close to covering all health costs and this simple calculation doesn't include medicaid nor private supplemental plans which are concurrently used.
Can someone please explain to me how gullible we citizens are supposed to be to believe that State-sponsored universal coverage will not bankrupt this nation? Mind you our entire 2008 budget was $2.66 trillion with a deficit of $240 billion.
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