Comments on: Health Care Reform: $2.4 Trillion and $85.6 Trillion http://hackneys.com/blog/2009/03/20/health-care-reform-24-trillion-and-856-trillion/ Travel, Geopolitics, Cultures, People, Discoveries and Experiences Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:40:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Autopsis » Blog Archive » Health Care Reform, the Napkin Version http://hackneys.com/blog/2009/03/20/health-care-reform-24-trillion-and-856-trillion/comment-page-1/#comment-572 Autopsis » Blog Archive » Health Care Reform, the Napkin Version Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:01:44 +0000 http://hackneys.com/blog/?p=304#comment-572 [...] Health Care Reform: $2.4 Trillion and $85.6 Trillion [...] [...] Health Care Reform: $2.4 Trillion and $85.6 Trillion [...]

]]> By: Doug http://hackneys.com/blog/2009/03/20/health-care-reform-24-trillion-and-856-trillion/comment-page-1/#comment-471 Doug Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:53:13 +0000 http://hackneys.com/blog/?p=304#comment-471 Chrisfs, Please read the post again. The post clearly states "In 2008 the United States of America spent $2.4 trillion dollars on health care. That equals 2.4 times this graphic." If you are looking for context, please check the other posts on this blog relating to health care reform: http://hackneys.com/blog/2009/03/12/thoughts-on-health-care-reform/ http://hackneys.com/blog/2009/03/13/health-care-reform-faq/ http://hackneys.com/blog/2009/03/13/health-care-reform-the-options/ http://hackneys.com/blog/2009/03/19/health-care-reform-the-cost-drivers-one-academics-view/ Doug Chrisfs,

Please read the post again. The post clearly states “In 2008 the United States of America spent $2.4 trillion dollars on health care. That equals 2.4 times this graphic.”

If you are looking for context, please check the other posts on this blog relating to health care reform:

http://hackneys.com/blog/2009/03/12/thoughts-on-health-care-reform/

http://hackneys.com/blog/2009/03/13/health-care-reform-faq/

http://hackneys.com/blog/2009/03/13/health-care-reform-the-options/

http://hackneys.com/blog/2009/03/19/health-care-reform-the-cost-drivers-one-academics-view/

Doug

]]> By: Chrisfs http://hackneys.com/blog/2009/03/20/health-care-reform-24-trillion-and-856-trillion/comment-page-1/#comment-470 Chrisfs Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:25:31 +0000 http://hackneys.com/blog/?p=304#comment-470 That's a pretty impressive visual, but it's also misleading. 1.6 trillion over 10 years,while it seems big by itself, it's actually a small amount of what has been spent on health care in the last 10 years. in 2007 alone $2.26 trillion was spent on health care in the US (premiums plus out of pocket expenses). And that was not over 1o years that was just 2007. Over the next 10 years, that total is expected to be $40 trillion because currently health care spending is rising much faster than inflation. Not only is it a drop in the bucket, but if we pass those reforms the total amount needed to pay for health care will go down, because the public plan will negotiate lower prices than the private insurers do, because it has economies of scale. The next thing you hip out the ol' pallets of money, please give people some context otherwise, you basically pulling an unfair scare tactic. That’s a pretty impressive visual, but it’s also misleading. 1.6 trillion over 10 years,while it seems big by itself, it’s actually a small amount of what has been spent on health care in the last 10 years. in 2007 alone $2.26 trillion was spent on health care in the US (premiums plus out of pocket expenses). And that was not over 1o years that was just 2007.
Over the next 10 years, that total is expected to be $40 trillion because currently health care spending is rising much faster than inflation.
Not only is it a drop in the bucket, but if we pass those reforms the total amount needed to pay for health care will go down, because the public plan will negotiate lower prices than the private insurers do, because it has economies of scale.
The next thing you hip out the ol’ pallets of money, please give people some context otherwise, you basically pulling an unfair scare tactic.

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