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 >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:336158 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
