Obamacare written to deceive the public.

[Aractus]

Hey Dummy.

I'm glad you like the Australian Health Care the Australian system. I'd probably like it too.....depending on the details. We might have been able to get something like it if the democrats hadn't whipped against a public option amendment to the bill. But all that is besides the point. The reason you are retard is you can't address the topic of this thread. That topic being Obamacare was written purposely in a way to deceive the american public so it could pass.

Do you have anything to say about that?

Yes, and I thought I made it very clear what I had to say about that: if I understand what Obamacare is - and believe me I didn't look it up - then the intent of the bill is obvious.

Also, and perhaps I should have mentioned this before, the other graph that Obama would be very keenly looking at is the one projecting the increased aged care costs over the next 30-40 years as the "baby boomers" age. This is an issue Australia also faces - not every country faces it because not every country had a population boom in the 40's-60's.

Now I'll give you an example of how this affects health spending, this is Australia:



Now I'll explain the graph, briefly - it goes all the way back to the 1960's before we had universal healthcare, then there was a large spike in the cost of healthcare when it was introduced, and it's been rising ever since primarily because the population is aging. It's been disproportionately rising for the federal government. So when Joe Hockey said that we can't afford to keep on going the same way with healthcare, and raising the Medicare levy this is the kind of graph he would have been looking at. The cost to the federal government in the 05-06 financial year was close to 9% of GDP. Around 5% of GDP to the state and territory governments, and private spending was under 3%. Add those all together and it would be about 16-17% of GDP was spent on healthcare in total.

In terms of the federal budget:



As you can see health spending accounts for 22% of the budget itself (that graph above is for 2010-2011). So it should be obvious that the 2% Medicare levy doesn't go anywhere near to paying for it.

You have a very different situation in the USA, but you face exactly the same reality that your health spending is going to increase every year for the next 30-40 years as the baby boomer generation ages.

Obama would have looked at a graph similar to this, but for the USA federal government and said that the best way to try and keep costs down for the federal government is to have the private sector pay more money. The more the private sector contributes, the less the government has to spend. Long term of course that's not going to be enough, but that's a start.