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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Road Walker who wrote (9007)	9/3/2009 9:01:26 AM
From: i-node	of 42652

Fifty-six to 60 percent of people in government-run Medicare rate it a 9 or 10 on a 10-point scale. In contrast, only 40 percent of those enrolled in private insurance rank their plans that high. The problem with Medicare isn't that people don't like it. Hell, for the most part, they're oblivious to it. They buy their supplement policy and forget it. The problem with Medicare is that it is $36.4 Trillion in the hole after only 50 years. That you would need to deposit $36.4 Trillion in Medicare today to meet future benefit requirements. And even THAT assumes the trustees' projections for the next 100 years are CORRECT (when history shows us they consistently under estimate the requirements).

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