re: #225 Killgore Trout

The $104 billion is net profit above the cost.

I know - that’s the plan. But it doesn’t change my point, really. First, to cover the cost of the $1.2 trillion, we’re looking at increased taxes, cuts in existing programs (e.g. Medicare), and ephemeral concepts like “eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse”. And quite frankly, I’m skeptical. Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid - all supposed to be self-supporting, etc. But the same people (i.e. congress) who created these programs couldn’t help themselves. They had to get their fingers into those cookie jars to fund new projects, or cover losses in other areas. Hell, it started with Medicare in about 1939.

I can’t imagine that Congress - even if they actually saw a $104 billion “profit” - could resist spending it elsewhere.

But we’d still have destroyed our health care system.