Memo to Deficit Obsessed Fools: Cheaper Government=Single-Payer Health Care

[marmar]

from the Working Life blog:



Memo to Deficit Obsessed Fools: Cheaper Government=Single-Payer Health Care

by Jonathan Tasini
Friday 12 of August, 2011


In the list of really annoying habits of the bi-partisan obsession with the phony debt and deficit "crisis" is the inability, or the ideological desire to willfully refuse, to do simple math. Because if you did simple math, then, you cannot be FOR cheaper government without being FOR single-payer health care. Put another way, any Republican or Democrats who claims s/he wants cheaper government is not being serious, and is picking ideology over economics, if that person does not push for single-payer health care.

This is not a new fact or math exercise--which makes it even more annoying. The facts have been out there during that far away time of the health care debate...oh, right, that was just one year ago. Yes, it's true--even if the transcribers of press releases (formerly known as "journalists") made every effort to ignore the cost-savings of single-payer health care, relegating single-payer to the last paragraph--often, literally--of their stories.

But, this is now worth recalling and talking about as we approach the next foolish chapter in deficit-obsession courtesy of the moronic Catfood Commission II.

Health care costs are the biggest non-military long-term driver of government deficits--largely because of the waste, fraud, administrative paperwork and CEO salariesof the for-profit health care mafia. .........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.workinglife.org/blogs/view_post.php?content_id=15262

[vi5]

1. No, no, no...that's all wrong...

Cheaper Government=Not paying for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, or anything for poor people.

[RC]

2. And less taxes too.

I hear Somalia is a great place to live.

[Sal Minella]

3. Next thing we know you'll be wanting the gubmint to sit down and

negotiate bulk drug prices with BigPharma.