Suggested Answers to the Short Quiz

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Suggested Answers to the Short Quiz - Medicare For All = Saving The U.S. Government $300 Billion/YEAR!!!


Question 1

Did we adopt a “Six Degrees Of Separation” E-mail Campaign following our 7/12/2017 meeting based on our proof that adopting “Medicare For All” would save the U.S. Government $300 Billion/YEAR???

Answer 1

Yes.

Question 2

Was that e-mail campaign directed at U.S. Senator John McCain???

Answer 2

Yes.

Question 3

Was 7/12/2017 a mere 16 days before Sen. McCain cast his iconic “thumb down” vote against “repealing and replacing” Obamacare as a result of which “repeal and replace” failed by one vote???

Answer 3

Yes.

Question 4

Is our 7/12/2017 e-mail campaign to Sen. McCain available at http://discussingliberally-saltlake.org ... =23&t=1631?

Answer 4

Yes.

Question 5

Did we state in the first paragraph of our e-mail to Sen. McCain that the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (the “OECD” which comprises the 35 top “economically developed” countries in the world) currently reported that the percentage of American Gross Domestic Product (“GDP”) spent on healthcare was more than twice the average of the rest of the world’s 35 economically-developed countries???

Answer 5

Yes.

Question 6

Did we also state in the first paragraph of our e-mail to Sen. McCain that the U.N.’s World Health Organization currently ranked “the health system performance” of the U.S. as only 37th in the world -- which meant that since there were only 35 members of the OECD, American healthcare was outranked by at least two third-world countries???!!!

Answer 6

Yes.

Question 7

Did our e-mail to Sen. McCain then document that in 2015 the U.S. Census Bureau (the most recent numbers available at the time of our e-mail) reported that 19.6% of the U.S. population was covered by Medicaid, 16.3% was covered by Medicare and 4.7% were covered by the Military including the V.A. -- for a total of 40.6%???

Answer 7

Yes.

Question 8

Did our e-mail to Sen. McCain then document that in 2015 the U.S. Census Bureau reported that 55.7% of the U.S. population had employment-based health insurance???

Answer 8

Yes.

Question 9

Did our e-mail to Sen. McCain then note that the cost of employment-based health insurance is tax deductible to the employer and non-taxable to the employee???

Answer 9

Yes.

Question 10

And that, since the U.S. corporate income tax rate was 35% at the time of our e-mail campaign to Sen. McCain, the U.S. Government was bearing the cost of 35% of healthcare insurance for the 55.7% of the U.S. population with employment-based health insurance -- in other words bearing through lost tax revenues the cost of an additional 35% of 55.7% of the U.S. population, or 19.5% of the U.S. population???

Answer 10

Yes.

Question 11

So did our e-mail campaign to Sen. McCain add to the 40.6% of the U.S. population whose healthcare was DIRECTLY covered by the U.S. Government (Q-7), 19.5% of the U.S. population representing the INDIRECT lost-tax-revenue cost to the U.S. Government of employer-provided healthcare -- for a total of 60.1%???

Answer 11

Yes.

Question 12

Did our e-mail campaign to Sen. McCain then note the anomaly that the U.S. Government already pays 60.1% of the nation’s healthcare bill which, per the OECD and UN’s World Health Organization, was DOUBLE the size of the world’s 35 other civilized countries???

Answer 12

Yes.

Question 13

So that if the U.S. brought its healthcare costs into line with the world’s 35 other civilized countries, the U.S. Government could provide healthcare for all of its population (e.g., “Medicare For All”) while REDUCING its costs from 60.1% of total American healthcare costs then exceeding $3 TRillion/year (in other words, $1,803 Billion/Year) to 100% of the $1.5 TRillion/year TOTAL that America should be paying by the standard of the world’s other 35 civilized countries ($1,500 Billion/Year) -- for a net savings of $1,500 Billion/Year cost of “Medicare for All” minus the $1,803 Billion/Year that we have been blowing to effectively cover only 60.1% of the population???

Answer 13

Yes.

Question 14

In other words, Medicare for All saving the U.S. Government $300 Billion/YEAR???

Answer 14

Yes.

Question 15

Was receiving an untold number of such e-mails during the 16 days before Sen. McCain cast his iconic “thumb down” vote on “repeal and replace” Obamacare the reason for his decision???

Answer 15

So it would seem.

For years prior to the vote, Sen. McCain had been fond of saying in speeches that the American healthcare system is “the best in the world.”

But we had faith in Sen. McCain’s integrity that when confronted with the facts, he would change his assessment.

Question 16

Does our current focus book “The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care – And How To Fix It” afford another opportunity to assess whether America still pays TWICE AS MUCH as the world’s other 35 civilized countries -- and why???

Answer 16

Yes.

Question 17

And is our calculation of the net savings from adopting “Medicare For All” narrowed somewhat by the fact that the U.S. Corporate Tax Rate has been reduced from 35% to 21% so that the effective cost to the U.S. government (or lost tax revenue) from employer-based healthcare has declined somewhat???

Answer 17

Yes.

Question 18

Aren’t you eager to join the fun by reading our focus book and participating in our Dec. 11 meeting???

Answer 18

Well are you???