Reply #67: Only an idiot would spend 17% of GDP on healthcare when we could be spending 12% or less.

[SmileyRose]

Obama has to sell it on the merits of the cash - the morally right thing to do will never fly with America. Show America we can ***ALL*** have Medicare for about the same cash we are currently all spending on medical care for just seniors, poor kids, the disabled and gov't employees. Then be very specific about how that can happen.

For instance show what we are spending on prescriptions for all the above groups and then show what America as a whole will spend on prescriptions, mostly generics, on meds with bulk buys for the country as a whole. Show what we spend on ER visits because people have no primary care doctor, and then show what it will cost to give everyone in America a yearly physical instead.

We'll have to prove it by the numbers.