I think we have a math issue.

10 million per person = 10,000,000
400 million people = 400,000,000

multiple those, and you get

4,000,000,000,000,000, which is 4 quadrillion, not 4 billion.

Right?

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Jeff Garza <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> So, you're saying that health care in america is 308 trillion dollar
> liability?   Any numbers to back that up?
>
> I understand that there are outliers in the numbers (like multi-transplant
> surgeries that can drift into the millions of dollars, which is itself a
> ludicris figure), but those are outliers.  I'm talking about most people.
> Maybe one or two serious surgeries, routine care, some ER time and
> perscriptions.  I highly doubt that, on a per person basis, most folks would
> go over a million in healthcare costs in their lifetime.
>
> We could up the ante a bit and give each person 10 million for healthcare
> costs x 400 million people (high estimate) = 4 billion dollars.  That is
> still well less than 4% of the current fiasco.  And it should be noted that
> we wasted that much in entitlements in the time it took me to write this...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerry Milo Johnson [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 5:05 PM
> To: cf-community
> Subject: Re: So Ryan's Budget Proposal ...
>
>
> You really think you can get $308,000,000,000,000 of liability insurance for
> $1,000,000,000?
>
> If so, would you right now give me $308,000 of health insurance for $1? I
> bet Maureen could use it, too.
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Jeff Garza <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Or you could use that money and give each and every legal person in
>> the United States a 1 million dollar insurance policy to use towards
>> their health care costs which would bear interest while not being used
>> (just like the insurance companies do it!). Most people in america
>> wouldn't even come close to going through that in their lifetime.  It
>> would be far less than a billion dollars to ensure every american.
>> And for those that go over, you give them another million.  So what.
>> It's a drop in the bucket so to speak...
>>
>> I'm not sure why we need to spend TRILLIONS when this approach would
>> do just fine.  Oh I remember, it's because the government has to
>> create another massive trillion dollar beauracracy to make sure it's
>> 

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