@horgen: Yeah, our healthcare costs are around 20 percent of GDP. They are massive, both in terms of totals and relative to peers.

@horgen said:@rmpumper said: @Stevo_the_gamer said: @eoten said: Yeah, he'll be blaming Republicans when his state goes bankrupt over it.The cost just isn't reasonable nor feasible, and good luck ge...

@mrbojangles25: @horgen: The cost of our current system is astronomical. The "how can we pay for it?" crowd relies on comparing the total cost of universal coverage to a small fraction of the current ...

@Stevo_the_gamer: Yeah, the cost of a universal.healthcare plan and the cost of current public funding aren't comparable. One is meant to replace much of if not all of the total healthcare spending.

@Stevo_the_gamer: That's just the state's public healthcare spending.

@Stevo_the_gamer: Source for the 22 billion dollars in healthcare spending vs 222 billion in cost. Healthcare spending in total is about 20 percent of GDP, last I checked.

@mrbojangles25: And are already spending on this very thing.The answer is, "with the money we're already spending on it."

@Serraph105: Yep. The amount of disinformation in their chosen media circles has them operating in a fantasy world, and there's little to no chance of that OP hitting home.

Everyone will get there eventually. Everyone in the country who has the opportunity and desire to be vaccinated has been, and eventually we'll move on regardless of the effect on the unvaccinated.

@sargentd said:@mattbbpl said: @sargentd: Explain.not in a loan from a bankbut in any goods or services, someone says they have a good or service for you with 0% interest financing, the cost is baked...

@comp_atkins: Yeah, claims that 0 percent rates don't help anyone is grade A foolishness. There are tradeoffs amongst different stakeholders, but that's not nearly the same thing.

You're talking about capital investment which just takes time - years, in most cases.There's enough capital to do so, and it's being done (such as tsmc's recent announcement), but that won't be done t...

To attempt to get this thread back on track, we have A LOT of ammo in our arsenal to decrease inflation - much more than we have to implement expansionary policy.@sargentd: , as the thread creator I'm...

Hey Jim, I've got a few bridges to sell you.

@girlusocrazy: You're going to need to update your original post with an ELI5 so the conservatives on this board understand.

Everyone reading this thread should reflect on SUD's response, particularly the portions regarding normalization, tradeoffs, and causes, and reflect on the experiences seen after the impact of the Gre...

@zaryia: That's not fair, of all their presidents in the last 40 years only half of them have been celebrities.

@zaryia: He's getting ready to give us some sources!

@eoten: Wonderful, then you have some sources to share!

@eoten: If the vaccines are ineffective they'll be ineffective no matter how many boosters you get.