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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (405145)8/8/2008 8:58:14 AM
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but try and tell Medicare recipients that the system sucks (that would be socialized med, would it not)...

Medicare is not socialized medicine -- it is more analogous to single-government-payer.

But you ask someone today who has used a non-par provider how good Medicare is. Those who use non-par providers have to deal with Medicare themselves (rather than having their providers do it for them, and payments go to the patients rather than the providers). It is a train wreck.

Furthermore, if MC were the ONLY provider, many physicians would earn less than air conditioning repairmen. Obviously, if that happened, many of these people who commit their lives to the work of a physician -- with 10 years of post-G training, would decide to become AC repairmen instead. So, what happens? Long lines waiting on medical care.

I think you and JF are about in the same boat -- spouting off about a subject you know nothing about.
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