So the Koch brothers are now a reliable source?
The Koch brothers' study gave a range, and the cheapest figure was the $33 trillion and ran under the assumption that doctors all take a 40% cut in reimbursement. It also comes with taking away everyone's employer provided insurance, so it is costing people more money for a shittier version of what they already have
Wrong. No more networks (oh I can't use this doctor, they're out of network! Etc)
and it's cheaper for the employer, employee, and nationally. It's cutting out the middleman in payment which eliminates mountains of paperwork and the complications that arise from it, hence
single payer. That's also why it's cheaper, a ball numbing, unnecessary step is cut out of the process. It's proven, that's why literally every other developed nation on earth uses a variant of the system. The math doesn't go into bizarro world for the US.
That Koch bros aren't reliable, it's noteworthy because their right wing think tank produced the most biased study they could conceive of and yet even in that scenario when you look into their own study it showed a single payer system costing 2 trillion
less than our current system over 10 years. The hilarity is that the 'left wing propaganda' news agency CNN even 'fact checked' their study and backed the author's assertion that a single payer system is more expensive even though the numbers in the data of the study show otherwise.
Also, you have to look at how much our current system costs before citing how many trillions a single payer system would cost. Current system cost minus single payer cost (which is always lower) = amount saved. You're unwittingly repeating CNN & Fox news propaganda. If I tell you that something is going to cost $300 for me to do it and you complain about the price when you're already paying $450 for someone else to do a shittier job that doesn't make a lotta sense to argue, yeah? Same thing.
I don't know where your 40% stat is coming from.
It's also the rest of his reckless spending increases on houses for junkies, government jobs for everyone, expanding other welfare programs, paying off debts for millennials who don't want to pay them back when our country is already $23 trillion in debt. The country can't afford it's spending already without increasing spending by trillions.
Trump spends too much and he's comfortably the lowest spender running and Biden is the 2nd lowest.
Reckless is your conjecture, on its own it's a meaningless statement.
We started multiple wars that have cost many times over what Bernie is proposing and we bailed out the people who wrecked the economy in '08 yet I bet you never ask where we got the money for all that bullshit. Yet, when someone talks about assistance programs and bailing out the common person you buck. Think about it. We already have bailouts and socialism for the rich. Not a single businessman nor banker got locked up after '08.
Trump has run up the deficit like crazy.
It's early to comment on all of his ideas, but social programs are there to save money--they're preventative, this is what people don't understand. It costs more money to leave people up a creek than to have assistance programs. Not having them or having weak ones also contributes to a less stable society.
The cost of college has gone up many times over the last few decades and having tuition free college nor student debt relief are new nor radical ideas, Bernie is taking cues from other countries, namely European ones.
The only part of his plans that I question are how he'd go about housing people and the jobs guarantee, because truthfully I don't know much about those nor his ideas for their implementation.