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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (4883)	2/25/2008 10:27:22 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 42652

How do we find a way to pay for it is an entirely separate question? Not entirely. You can answer "yes" to your first question and "wait a minute" to your second. Surely there is some cost level that is too high to pay, even for you, some cost level at which you would balk. Some price too high to pay. Isn't there? Its main proposal is to reduce the subsidy, and thereby increase the premiums, for wealthier beneficiaries in the drug program — individuals who earn more than $82,000 a year, and couples above $164,000. I would think you'd approve of this. It's progressive, after all. Congress and the administration need to be able to consider all possible sources of revenue for Medicare — on their own sound and equitable merits. As for the funding that comes from the general fund, folks on this board have been very insistent in reminding us that Medicare and SS come from payroll taxes. The argument is the they are entitled because they paid in. When you take money from the general fund, you compromise that social contract. Not something to be undertaken lightly.

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