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Topic: Obama: Health overhaul key to economic recovery
s1owhand's photo
Sun 08/09/09 08:04 PM
their health care from one of the refs i cited is only about 11% of their GDP so their debt problems are not primarily health care related. ours on the other hand costs about 16% of our GDP. which is where the 5% of GDP = $5.6 trillion savings comes from.

so, by any reasonable estimate our debt would go down dramatically - possibly by something like $5.6 trillion a year if we adopted the french health care model.

the rest of the french economic problems notwithstanding....

AdventureBegins's photo
Sun 08/09/09 08:09 PM

their health care from one of the refs i cited is only about 11% of their GDP so their debt problems are not primarily health care related. ours on the other hand costs about 16% of our GDP. which is where the 5% of GDP = $5.6 trillion savings comes from.

so, by any reasonable estimate our debt would go down dramatically - possibly by something like $5.6 trillion a year if we adopted the french health care model.

the rest of the french economic problems notwithstanding....


But we will have the rest of the economic problems...

We are borrowing money to pay for spending to much money...


heavenlyboy34's photo
Sun 08/09/09 08:14 PM



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090808/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_health_care

I guess I just don't understand how it is the key to economic recovery. What part did it have to play in the downfall of the economy? How were jobs lost because of health care?


It's not. Don't be so surprised that politicians are chronic liars. :wink:

I don't believe it is the key to our economic recovery. But that is what Obama said.

The only numbers I ever see on the news is 47 million uninsured. And 1 trillion if not more to fund it. Mind you 1 trillion we do not have nor do they know where to get it from. Can you say increased taxes?


They can't raise taxes enough to pay for their irresponsibility and greed. That would be more debt than the total assets owned by American taxpayers!! Indeed, Americans are debt slaves to the fascist State.

s1owhand's photo
Sun 08/09/09 08:17 PM
nah. we have our own US problems.

AdventureBegins's photo
Sun 08/09/09 08:28 PM

nah. we have our own US problems.

You said it sir...

We are borrowing (printing) money faster than we are creating TAXPAYERS...

The system is at the tipping point.


s1owhand's photo
Mon 08/10/09 02:15 AM
ok. let's cut somr costs, reduce spending and
lower debt and taxes...

bigsmile

AdventureBegins's photo
Mon 08/10/09 07:57 AM

ok. let's cut somr costs, reduce spending and
lower debt and taxes...

bigsmile

First we must find representatives that have ears.

Then we can reduce costs... etc.

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