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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: DMaA who wrote (425159)7/10/2003 11:58:27 AM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (2) of 769668
 
This is a perfectly respectable way to deal with the matter, on conservative principles:

The bills that the House and Senate have sent to the conference committee would legislate two irreconcilable visions of health insurance and the roles of the state and the market. House Republicans, who passed their bill on almost a straight party-line vote, authorized tax subsidies to seniors who choose to opt out of Medicare to join HMOs. Those seniors whom the HMOs don't want -- the sicker ones, with chronic conditions -- will be left behind in Medicare, which will perforce become a more rickety, less sustainable program unable to compete with the private insurers.

washingtonpost.com

Despite the last spin in the paragraph quoted, the idea of trying to get Medicare targeted for the needy, while offering some general assistance to seniors in the form of tax credits, makes sense.
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