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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: RetiredNow who wrote (550243)2/16/2010 11:17:34 AM
From: Alighieri  Read Replies (1) of 1586626
 
Why must we take it as a God-given fact that our government must pay for Medicare?

Who is the "government"? The nation bears this expense. The question is how to control and allocate the costs to its citizens.

with an implementation scheme that is driven by private enterprise, with the government ensuring that no monopolies can take root and that competition is encouraged.

Not sure it works in this case. The fundamental elements of competition are largely missing, because medicine is largely geographical by its very nature. The cost of medicine is in simple terms the cost of the actual care + administering insurance + profits. Fine, allow insurance companies to compete across state lines, but that's only a small fraction of the costs. It does not attack the actual rising costs of delivering care, which is practically all in the private sector.

Al
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