{"id":16558,"date":"2018-07-30T17:04:26","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T21:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=16558"},"modified":"2018-07-30T17:04:26","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T21:04:26","slug":"a-new-study-estimates-bernie-sanders-medicare-for-all-plan-would-cost-32-6-trillion-over-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/07\/a-new-study-estimates-bernie-sanders-medicare-for-all-plan-would-cost-32-6-trillion-over-10-years\/","title":{"rendered":"A new study estimates Bernie Sanders&#8217; &#8216;Medicare for all&#8217; plan would cost $32.6 trillion over 10 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/amp.businessinsider.com\/images\/5b5f26522154a31c008b4701-2732-1366.jpg?w=980&#038;ssl=1' style='max-width:600px;' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Ridiculous. If the federal government paid $400\/mo average per citizen for private health insurance, it would cost 1.4 Trillion&#8230;and I bet with a group of 300 Million or so, read: EVERYONE they might even get better group rates.<\/p>\n<p>This is about will. If we want universal health coverage and awesome free education, all we have to do is decide it&#8230;and stop funding other less important things. Like benefits for billionaires&#8230;perks and extras, in hopes they&#8217;ll create a few more shitty-can&#8217;t-earn-a-living jobs for desperate masses to fight over.<\/p>\n<p>The Article &#8216;A new study estimates Bernie Sanders&#8217; &#8216;Medicare for all&#8217; plan would cost $32.6 trillion over 10 years&#8217; originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/medicare-for-all-cost-estimate-bernie-sanders-2018-7\">https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/medicare-for-all-cost-estimate-bernie-sanders-2018-7<\/a><br \/>\nJamie&#8217;s comments are his own.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ridiculous. If the federal government paid $400\/mo average per citizen for private health insurance, it would cost 1.4 Trillion&#8230;and I bet with a group of 300 Million or so, read: EVERYONE they might even get better group rates. This is about will. If we want universal health coverage and awesome free education, all we have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[582,586,590,589,565,587,588,585,591,456],"tags":[593,597,596,96,598,594,595,592,523,33],"class_list":["post-16558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-2","category-editorial-2","category-imho","category-imo","category-jamiegray","category-moregray","category-myopinion","category-opinion-3","category-sharedlink","category-jamie-gray","tag-editorial","tag-imho-blogger","tag-imo","tag-jamiegray","tag-link","tag-moregray","tag-myopinion","tag-opinion","tag-blog","tag-jamie-gray"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17817,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2020\/04\/opinion-bernie-sanders-the-foundations-of-american-society-are-failing-us\/","url_meta":{"origin":16558,"position":0},"title":"Opinion | Bernie Sanders: The Foundations of American Society Are Failing Us","date":"April 19, 2020","format":"image","excerpt":"If we don't look at this pandemic, and see it as a reason for real, serious, democratic change, we deserve every bit of the doom we create for ourselves going forward. 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