Price tag of Bernie Sanders’ proposals: $18 Trillion

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That's over a decade, so that is a "mere" 1.8 trillion per year. No problem!

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Hahah, $32 trillion in savings from abolishing a major sector of the economy. Sure, Bernie. Sure.

Maybe Bernie is counting as "savings" folks not having to pay insurance premiums anymore.

[Torie]

Basically, Sanders' plan has two parts: $15 trillion on healthcare and $3 trillion on everything else. The $3 trillion on everything else is a good plan and roughly comparable to the Republicans' various deficit-growing tax cut plans. And then the healthcare plan is pie-in-the-sky nonsense.

Why would be the healthcare plan that exists in every other first world country and usually works significantly better and more efficient then the current US system "pie-in-the-sky nonsense"?

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-04-30/single-payer-would-make-health-care-worse

Fascinating article that. We have an expensive infrastructure and spending imbedded into the system that creates a constituency. One thing the article missed is that the US spends more for drugs I think because the US paying higher prices tends to subsidize drug research for the planet, and other nations freeload off of that.