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Sanders Rips Lawmakers Saying 'We Don't Have the Money' While Backing $900 Billion for Military (www.commondreams.org)

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"I think it's time to tell the military-industrial complex they cannot get everything they want," said Sen. Bernie Sanders. "It's time to pay attention to the needs of working families."

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[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Not everyone uses Medicare or Medicaid. Not a fair comparison. Looks like 135 million are covered by Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIPS. So, about $7,777 per person.

https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/news-alert/cms-releases-latest-enrollment-figures-medicare-medicaid-and-childrens-health-insurance-program-chip

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Looks like 135 million are covered by Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIPS. So, about $7,777 per person.

Fair enough, so how does $7,777 per person end up at the claimed 1/3rd the cost?

Also if we extend that $7,777 per person cost to 340,000,000 people you get a total of roughly 2.65 Trillion dollars. So even 1.95 Trillion (Medicare/Medicaid/CHIPS + the entire DoD Budget) would still come up nearly a Trillion dollars short.

Again, the math doesn't work.

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I didn't say it did. But trying to extend current costs to figure out the cost of covering everyone doesn't work either. Costs won't stay the same.