I do not want my tax money going to a private school that preaches rapture, for example .. and presumably any other Christian teaching.
I understand your feeling, and I don't think your tax dollars should pay for religious instruction you disagree with. But I know that 95%+ of what goes on in religious schools is normal scholastic activity. There is no reason your tax dollars couldn't pay for that.
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I see your link to an article quoting 2% overhead for Medicare and 15% for "private sector plans". Googling I see this claim is made over and over, but with different numbers. Sometimes Medicare's overhead is quoted as being under 2%, under 4%, 2%, <5%, 3%, 5%, 3.2%, etc. And then this is contrasted with the allegedly wasteful private sector where overhead is 13%, or 30%, or 12-30%, 24%, etc.
I don't believe any of this until I see I know what is behind the numbers, whichever set of numbers you choose. What makes up "overhead"? No, I'm not asking your opinion. I know you don't know.
a health-care system that leaves its citizenry pulling out their teeth with pliers..."
I don't believe Americans are pulling their teeth with pliers. And I question the rest of his facts as well. A lot of people on the left have a position that they want socialized medicine (fully socialized that is, about half of our system is already socialized) and they will say whatever will push their position.
Gee, this is on top of some 100,000 - 200,000 people being killed or injured from medical malpractice.
Ah, socialization of medical care will eliminate malpractice. That's great! Not only will will it be super-efficient, doctors and nurses will stop making mistakes.
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-------------But what about when that ratio is 3:1? Or 2.5:1?
We eliminate the SS cap on income (currently, I think, it's at $90K) and the problem goes away until the baby boomers keel over and the baby busters have the mini baby boomers pay for them.
Nope, that won't be enough. They keep raising the ceiling and very few people make more than the ceiling. Scott Burns and Laurence Kotlikoff have written a book on the subject:
amazon.com
FYI, it is highly critical of BOTH Republican and Democrat politicians handling of the issue. |
