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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (469475)4/7/2009 8:49:01 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (2) of 1577025
 
>> No I didn't. I do claim it is obscenely expensive.

It shouldn't have been done at all, and I've not argued otherwise.

However, the argument we've had today is about which is better -- single government payer or the government/private arrangement we now have.

I have pointed to Part D as an example of a well-functioning government/private arrangement. It is far under budget and the numbers have improved every year, while Medicare's get worse and worse every year.

By comparison with Obama's massive social spending budget -- generating 10T in deficits over the next 10 years, the few billions of Part D don't look like a bad deal to me at this point. Still, I don't think increased spending is good for the country.

It is interesting that you are gung ho about having Obama run this decade of $10T in deficits, but you have a problem with providing Rx drugs for Medicare patients at relatively insignificant cost.
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