TYT Army: Time To Ride On The Public Option!

[BoxCleva]

[Glamour Puss]

I know these guys personally. They're clowns.

[Jim Jeffries]

Total Government spending on Medicare in 2007: 440 billion. Already about 5% of GDP, expected to skyrocket in coming years:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicar...ited_States%29

Total Government spending on Medicaid in 2004: 295 billion. State's spend an average of 16.8% of state general funds on the project.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicaid

I don't have more recent figures on hand, but it's safe to say that more than 750 billion a year is spent on these two government health care plans alone.

We could spend about 80 million a year to insure the 12 million people that actually want coverage. And we could address a lot of things like Tort reform, allowing companies to purchase health insurance across state lines, and some other things that Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal mentions here:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...236378974.html




But what we DON'T need, what we'll never need, is this "public option" garbage.