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Originally Posted by dogzilla
The government program part of this is the well publicized subsidies to those at as much as 4x poverty level. Those subsidies are coming out of the taxpayer's pocket. Unless someone is disabled, I shouldn't be subsidizing their coverage. I also shouldn't be subsidizing their going to an ER instead of a doctor today, but that's another debate.
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If you want to equate government subsidies with government run...thats fine. But it still doesnt make it a government run program when the providers will be private insurance companies.
The cost of those subsidies is coming from several sources...including cuts to Medicare Advantage providers that have been overcharging for years...to the tune of $150 billion as well as significant savings through technology investments over time (far more difficult to measure).
The $500 billion that would have been generated by the House version would have been better, IMO.