Reply #27: Waiting for the CBO's Single-Payer cost/benefit analysis from August: Wonder if Obama has it now...

[seafan]

David Lindorff's Single-Payer cost analysis is here.



His result is as follows:

$484 billion for present-day Medicare (for 45 million old/disabled over age 65)

PLUS

$160 billion to cover everyone else (255 million under age 65)
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===$644 billion to cover everyone

Rep. Anthony Weiner has also said that the CBO cost analysis of the "other plans" currently being fought over show that those plans start out at ~$300 billion in the hole, because that money flows to the insurance companies.

Single Payer already beats that, hands down.



I am looking forward to the CBO report on Single-Payer.