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ReallyIAmAnOptimist

(357 posts)
Sat Feb 20, 2016, 11:47 AM Feb 2016

We'd save $5253 per year with Bernie's Single Payer plan... calculate for yourself...

We'd save $5253.60.
That's serious money.
Furthermore employers save too, similar amount, over $5K
(in the case of an employee+spouse+2 kids, which is our situation)

Here are two calculators to find your family's savings:

http://www.bernietax.com/#0;0

http://valadian.github.io/SandersHealthcareCalculator/

Single payer saves everybody money:
-Individuals
-Families
-Employers
-Government (costs would drop from 17% to ~12% of GDP) WOW!!!


Single payer is the patriotic thing to do!

Or we keep 320 Million people under the parasitic foot of the so-called 'health insurance' industry...

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We'd save $5253 per year with Bernie's Single Payer plan... calculate for yourself... (Original Post) ReallyIAmAnOptimist Feb 2016 OP
I tried the second one dsc Feb 2016 #1
Ouch Travis_0004 Feb 2016 #2
Me too. Meanwhile, in another part of the forest: AzDar Feb 2016 #3

dsc

(52,166 posts)
1. I tried the second one
Sat Feb 20, 2016, 11:57 AM
Feb 2016

It both over reported my savings and my employers savings. My employer claims to spend a bit less than 6k on my the calculator says they would save over 7k. In my case it applies the entire deductible as if I would spend it which I haven't done in any of the years I have had this insurance.

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