California is undertaking an ambitious bid to establish a single-payer health care system, and now its plan has a price tag: $400 billion a year.
The state legislature has been debating a plan this year to implement a government insurance program to cover all Californians, including those without legal status.
It’s a very generous proposal, as currently conceived. The state would pay for almost all of its residents’ medical expenses — inpatient, outpatient, emergency services, dental, vision, mental health, and nursing home care — under the plan, and Californians would not have any premiums, copays, or deductibles. Those sweeping benefits drive up costs…
The plan, according to the estimate by the state Senate’s Appropriations Committee, would cost twice as much as the entire state budget that Gov. Jerry Brown is proposing for the next fiscal year.
Lawmakers have been waiting for an estimate of the costs, which they received on Monday. Here is the bottom line, from the Los Angeles Times:
The analysis found that the proposal would require:
*A total cost of $400 billion per year to cover all healthcare and administrative costs.
*Of that, $200 billion of existing federal, state and local funds could be repurposed to go toward the single-payer system.
*The additional $200 billion would need to be raised from new taxes.
Lawmakers have not settled on a plan for paying for the new system…
Notice, they operate as if there are no limitations on resource availability, because their brains are actually programmed to operate as if there will never be any limitations on resource availability. California is already going under. Smart, profitable businesses are fleeing it for other states. Now is not the time to be offering free healthcare for everyone, including illegals.
But rabbits are designed to feel such bliss at spending as if money will never run out, that they cannot perform those simple logical analyses. Somebody postulates some way to spend the state into oblivion, and the rabbits cannot help themselves, because as r-strategists it is just how they are designed.
Spread r/K Theory, because the free resources will not last forever
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$400B is almost the size of the entire US defense budget, just to put things into perspective.
And their current entire state budget is in the $180 billion range.
On the plus side we’re going to get to watch single payer fail spectacularly so maybe nobody will want to try it nationally. On the negative side, here in Colorado we’re going to be seeing even more brain dead r-selector California Refugees fleeing their mess, moving here and mucking up our politics.
You’re right, even they don’t understand their own urges.
http://www.womenshealthmag.com/life/woman-makes-bread-with-vaginal-yeast
That’s disgusting. Who would even think of doing such a thing? I could think for millions of years and not have that thought ever run through my mind.