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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (131519)	2/26/2010 11:00:31 AM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (2) of 540944

My basic problem is that I'm not convinced the cost curve can be bent. In trying to research it, I can't find reasonable methods for doing it. For example, the plan claims it can get cost savings out of Medicare and will use these to subsidize the uninsured who can't afford it. This makes no sense to me, because we already know that Medicare itself is unsustainable and will soon need to be 'subsidized'. I'm sure the cost savings are there, but shouldn't the cost savings from the Medicare program go back in to support Medicare? I don't say this because I myself am on Medicare. I say it because to take from one underfunded program to subsidize a new program, no matter how worthy the intentions are, is illogical, even foolish, I think. Where did you get the '1800 daily health-care related personal bankruptcies' from?

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