While the UK, France and Massachuetts give us some indications, I believe our own statistics speak louder.
In 1965 Medicare was projected to cost only $12 billion in the 1990's. It cost us $110 billion. Medicaid cost $4 billion in 1966, $41 billion in 1986,and $243 billion last year. Welfare (resdistribution programs) housing, food stamps ,etc
is spending $20,000 for every man woman and child in poverty. We have a $2.1 trillion on programs and now faced with the beginning of baby boomers taking retirement. The obvious point is that the governement has always, and I suspected intentionally, under estimated the costs associated with redistribution programs. Now Obama wants to add ObamaCare to the mix. If he wins we will have a single payer system and one that has shown in the past to be hopelessly inefficient and ineffective.
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