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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (1127)	4/14/2006 3:23:18 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) of 42652

Attempts to raise retirement age hit that same roadblock- -the elderly AND AARP lobbies. Today the elderly are accustomed to thinking they should collect SS for twenty or more years. Yep, They get far more back that they eve put in to this Ponzi scheme- -even with inflation accounted for. The retirement age needs to be raised drastically. Raise it to 70 right now and then index is one year per decade and it would extend the life of both SS and Medicare. This means generational war. The pols don't want ot fight it. Reimbursing doctors fairly so that the system would not force distortions and we could evaluate the real costs would be an improvement. My impression is that the majority of docs wil not accept patients who have only Medicare coverage. More and more don't take ANY insurance. You pay them, them bill you insurance separately and see what you can get. The system cannot work anything like the libs want with its current limitations.

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