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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Road Walker who wrote (10141)10/5/2009 3:23:19 PM
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that in CEO salary the public option would save money. You dispute that?

If you could get the public option without the downsides inherent in it, sure. But it is an all-or-none proposition. Yes, we can get rid of exorbitant CEO salaries, but at the same time we get a government bureaucracy that is less efficient and altogether worse at what it is doing.

As a more specific example, the public option will be consumed with fraud and abuse just like Medicare/Medicaid currently are. These are expenditures that are not tolerated by private enterprise.

There is no evidence that a public option will even be able to deliver the services we now receive (it is my view it will not). So, how do you compare that?

When you consider that Medicare and Medicaid now lose maybe 100 Billion/year to fraud, CEO salaries are literally immaterial in amount. Consider other wasteful government inefficiencies, and it is clear that CEO salaries don't form the basis for an improvement over the current setup.
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