So out of curiosity...did Jake Tapper ever correct the bullshit fake news story he put forth?
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I cannot find any evidence that Tapper ever corrected this like he claimed he would.
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So wow, CNN posted an updated "fact check" of the story. Case closed, right?
Ha no, cuz even after that Jake Tapper couldn't help himself. Bernie Sanders was tweeting out various things about what happened, which all turned out to be facts he got right from the study. Tapper then tweets this:
'Your views on the Mercatus Center study and Medicare for All are your own, senator, but four major fact- checkers agree you're citing the report out of context."
Not only was Bernie not taking it out of context...but the "four major fact checkers" Tapper cites all used the SAME source he did, the author of the study(who by now it is clear was trying to backtrack on what the study showed, so he's shockingly not reliable and Tapper acts like he is)
And Tapper isn't the only one who got this wrong. Fact checkers at the Washington Post also did. Jesus christ lol. Two major media outlet "fact checkers" turned out to be full of shit.
Side note: I find Jimmy Dore can actually be tolerable as long as he's not around TYT.
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Surtur, what is your current opinion of Sanders' Medicare-for-All plan? Has it swayed one way or another after Mercatus Center's backpedaling and damage control became evident?
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I'd be on board with it if it was truly cheaper. So if Bernie is right I would support it.
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So after three pages of flaming Bernie and shit-posting, now these same people are starting to concede that Bernie seems to have been correct all along.
It was a good learning lesson: never ever trust CNN again.
Baby steps indeed, I'm glad people are seeing this.
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Well hey if they are wrong and you can show it, awesome.
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I don't plagiarize, it is actually a little bit annoying that people think that. I do mention the WOPO's article, but the video has some unique points that also warrant some critical analysis.
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I decided to do the math based off of a few variables/constants:
1. The above, cited, per capita costs of healthcare: $10,348
2. Each year, the average number of people in the US I set to 320,000,000
3. Average yearly inflation is 3.22%
4. Number of years I set to 10
Since this is not compound interest, each year will get assessed at different interest rate based on the year and each year gets summed after completing that calculation. Going backwards from year 10, these are the numbers:
(Yes, I forgot the investment formula for this so I did 10 individual calculations and "summed" them...don't judge me).
Meaning that under the current system, it will cost Americans a total of $39 trillion. That's 2019-2028, or 10 years.
That's much more than any of the other numbers that DS0 cited.
So using the most expensive numbers that DS0 cited for us, Bernie's plan using the highest numbers present (Urban Institute), will save Americans $7 Trillion. And my numbers are calculated without taking into consideration how fast medical costs are increasing under current system vs. the cost-control savings that would be realized if the Medicare System was expanded to all Americans. That also does not include the cost savings from the massive reduction in administration costs for existing medical insurance companies.
Likely, the money saved by Americans would be several trillion dollars more than the $7 trillion my rough calculation offers.
Conclusion: Bernie's far-too-liberal proposal (one that I am not on board with because it needs to be scaled back a bit) would save Americans $7 trillion over 10 years, minimum, if all other factors remained EXACTLY the same (they wouldn't).
I mean the Urban Institute within the study itself says that the plan will not cost 6.6 trillion more than we already spend nationally. People tend to ignore that fact. But the number you provided is not much more than any data point mentioned. Blahous believes if we disregard Sanders' assumption it will cost around 40 trillion.
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