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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Alighieri who wrote (498272)7/26/2009 4:43:51 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) of 1578293
 
it doesn't tell me that at all...it tells in fact me that medicare controls the costs of medical services and that the private section of medicine is FUBAR

Medicare can "control" costs ONLY because private insurance subsidizes it. Were it not for these subsidies, physician shortages would be worse than they already are.

...medicare is not broke today.

Salesman talk. If you understood basic accounting you would not be saying this.

George Will made the point this morning, that when LBJ's "medicare" was signed into law, the funding requirements in 1990 were projected at $12 Billion. When 1990 got here, it turned out to be $100 Billion.

..it will be broke because a disproportionate segment of our population will be aged to the most expensive part of its medical life AND people like you refuse to accept the fact that they must be cared for AND THAT will cost more money

Yes, money that I have been paying into the system since I was a teenager that was to have been designated FOR THAT PURPOSE.

...so you go around making cynical accusations against those who would do something about the problem without offering ANY workable alternative...it's shitty beyond description.

I've told you what I would do which are ALL better, more productive suggestions than socializing the health care system.

You have made it know that any system which doesn't provide FREE MEDICAL INSURANCE to those who either can't or won't pay for it, is not viable in your eyes. A totally unreasonable objective and one that will result in the death of Obama's initiative if he doesn't back way the hell off of it.

We are not going to buy insurance for people who don't have it. Without it they STILL get the best health care in the world, and it would be stupid to wreck that and the future of the country with another big-spending, liberal social program.
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