Originally Posted by
Frodo
A quick google would answer your medicare for all question. The current estimates for Healthcare in current form is $50 trillion over 10 years if you add up all the costs. Medicare for All is estimated at $32 trillion over the same period.
The private sector will take a huge cut to its profits, but because they currently overcharge so much for simple procedures, they'll be fine in the long run.
Plus Medicare for all would absolutely crush the pharmaceutical companies. The government would just bypass them and import things like Insulin if they don't bring the prices down to real world prices. (Just like the 1000s of people who currently drive into Canada to buy it for a fraction of the cost in the US.)
Realistic there's no way Medicare for All doesn't happen within the next 10 years. Now that the numbers are out there and people know how much they can save, even Republicans are going to have to let it happen soon.