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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Road Walker who wrote (14650)	3/17/2010 4:20:41 PM
From: Lane3	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) of 42652

Toto I don't think we're in Kansas anymore. Do you really think that the bill will reduce the deficit or are you just repeating the partisan mantra because that's the game as it's now played? Just curious. Actually, I'm very impressed with the machinations that went into contorting that bill to wedge it into CBO's cracks. Work of art, for sure. Totally bogus, but impressive skill in gaming the system. One thing I find interesting about the claim is the packaging configuration. Instead of using opportunities to reduce Medicare costs as a hedge against the Medicare shortfall, the bill was bundled so that (unlikely to come to fruition) savings in Medicare would pay for much of a new program for the younger set. Assuming that the Medicare cuts actually happen, which is iffy, that leaves Medicare worse off than before with less opportunity to recoup having already been raided to fund the new program. We could have used those Medicare savings to prop up Medicare but we didn't. Rather, the claim is that the new program is paid for. So where will we get the savings to prop up Medicare? Not that it matters fiscally since the money is fungible. But the politics aren't.

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