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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For someone to pay $628.90/month in 2025 for Medicare premiums means they had MAGI between $410k and $750k two years ago. And that does not fully cover the cost of Medicare. What we should all actually be upset about is the cost of medical care in the US. Doesn't anyone else think it is insane that we pay so much more than other countries?

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Because we have so much more dead weights, uneducated, and unproductive population. [/quote]

No it’s because private healthcare increases the cost. Have to pay those CEO’s instead of spending money on treatments and doctor salaries.

Other first world countries spending on healthcare as percentage of GDP.

Japan 10.6%
UK 10.6%
Germany 12.6%
France 12.1%
Norway 8.1%
Canada 12.4%

US 18.1%[/quote]

Health Insurance CEO pay does not explain a meaningful share of US healthcare spending. The current United healthcare CEO has a base salary of 1 million dollars with stock compensation of up to 60 million that vests after 3 years. So total annual compensation is around 21 million per year. United healthcare has around 52 million people covered by their insurance, which means that the CEO pay only accounts for 40.4 cents of health insurance costs per person. The average healthcare spending in the US is $14,570 which means that the CEO compensation accounts for less than $1/$34,000 in healthcare spending United healthcare insurance participants. [/quote]

It's not just the CEOs. It's the entire system - multiple companies with duplicate management structures competing against each other for profit. If the system was government run, we would have one "company" with a network of hospitals and clinics that provide services to everyone - one HR, one billing system, etc. Not this cartel with legislative moat that prevents the import of doctors, medicines, etc.

I know doctors like to come on here and cry about how much debt they have, but let's face it. US doctors are waaaay overpaid relative to their peers anywhere else in the world. All of that adds up. [/quote]

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