In San Fransisco, a form of Universal Health Care has arrived: They call it, “Healthy San Fransisco”. It convers all uninsured adults. It’s paid for by the city government, costing them 200 million. So let’s do some simple math. There are 82,000 uninsured adults in San Fransisco. It costs roughly 2,439 dollars per person. Not bad. Multiply 2,439 by 300,000,00 (the population, roughly in America) you get 731, 700, 000,000. This is a rough estimate, of course. And for all we know, it could cost ten times more. But, even with this economy, its doable. Sometimes its better to ’spend your way out’ of a defecit. Think of the Great Depression. Get people more jobs, get companies like GM off retiree health benefits. Maybe that will actually get us out of this faster.
