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universal coverage, aka:Medicare for every American from the cradle to the grave.
What is the economical cost of the current system with it's exploding medical costs; far outstripping the vast majority of Americans' salaries?
How much could it be costing our economy to have an entire Vietnam's equivalent of American Deaths occur every fifteen months because some groups of people or corporations having nothing to do with health care must have their right to profit from the American Peoples illness, injury and death protected? Surely that must have some impact not only from the loss of those people but the effects on their families and communities as well?
Has anyone calculated the cost to the economy in regards to lost equity in real estate due to the leading cause of foreclosures; that being health related, of the victims, their families and the surrounding neighborhoods?
Has anyone calculated the affective cost of *high interest rates from credit cards, and astronomical, loan shark, interest rates from payday loan establishments to the overall economy and how the current dysfunctional private for profit medical coverage system has provided fertile breeding grounds for those twin adverse dynamics?
These are only a few examples but I'm just wondering from a purely economical standpoint how much our current dysfunctional private for profit system is costing or stunting our national economy and if this has ever been taken in to consideration by those Congress People voicing opposition because of economic cost?
* Not just to those with bad credit but kept artificially high for those with good credit as well.
I may need to leave here shortly but will be back tomorrow.
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