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I don't know about the rest of ya, but I'm looking at insurance for next year and staring down premiums well over $1000/mo for a PPO.

Sure, $125/mo would be helpful, but I could easily get behind the argument that we need to do a LOT more about these spiraling costs than just giving $125/mo to 20M people.

We need a PUBLIC OPTION, with low overhead, akin to what we pay in admin costs for Medicare, and no PROFIT for anyone but the people actually providing the services! If the government plan puts any or even all health insurance providers out of business, TOO FUCKING BAD.

132 billion divided by 20 million by 12 months is 550 a month.

But even a public option would need work to provide the bigger savings we need. We don't allow the government to negotiate drug prices which is one of the biggest drivers in insurance costs going up. It also doesn't address the increased utilization we've seen since 2021.

we would have 100 billion left over, which means we would have spent only $32 billion.
$32 B divided by 20M and then by 12 - I get $133.33

Moments like this, I'd really appreciate a dunce emoji.

with the data you used.
Please don't feel bad about it. Anyone who hasn't been there is probably not smart enough (and certainly not confident enough) to go there.

THAT is how to admit to a mistake. One many could easily make. Not like any GQP, “I didn’t say that”. Refreshing to see us Dems show responsibly. No foot to mouth required. Your humility is good enough. More of this from everyone.

and instead done the one extra step in the calculator that was needed

It *looked like* $125 when I eyeballed it lol. Thanks for the correction

I did it twice, because it didn't match your figures, but when I looked at the numbers again, I realized that 16 is a power of two, whereas 12 is divisible by three, so the string of 3's was reasonable and to be expected. And a difference of $8.33 a month is a drop in the bucket anyway

...the rates wouldn't go up so much. Likely that $1000 a month would be a much more tame figure.

Much money...yada,yada,yada

Still too high, though.

It's a smokescreen masking nefarious disruption for the purpose of getting the oligarchy even richer than they already are.

...and can't milk more out of the system and can't bamboozle their base anymore, they'll leave the nation to the vultures waiting in the wings.

and blow up fishermen overseas

Kick Rec Repost

Liberal "math" and "counting" are for lefty loons. A real president feels it in his gut.
hahaha

This entire meme would make a good sticker/shirt/poster!

The Preamble to the Constitution is what we today call a Mission Statement. It provides the guidelines for what legislation and Executive Orders should be measured against. It should also be a constraint on Supreme. Court decisions. America has lost its way and is wandering endlessly and must get back on track. https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/preamble/

...if we ever get rid of the thing now living in the White House!

She could fire up the millennials and Gen Z voters, who like her and Bernie, and she could win!

republicans do when they're in office. More & more to the rich people, while everyone else has to fend for themselves.