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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (577395)7/22/2010 2:11:42 PM
From: SilentZ  Read Replies (1) of 1575985
 
>Z, you haven't acknowledged the subcontractors who are under obligation to employ thousands of Medicare bureaucrats.

Those are care providers. Those "Medicare bureaucrats" are their employees. Not sure what your problem there is.

>Let me put it this way. How big is the health insurance industry today? You think you can replace all of that with just a few thousand bureaucrats? If so, you would be wrong.

It works with Medicare. And we're probably talking between 50,000-100,000 "bureaucrats," as you derisively call them. Remember, you've got lot of administrative structure already in place... government insurance doesn't need much in the way of marketing, or variety of plans, etc... there's a lot of staffing that wouldn't be necessary.

But even if it needed 500,000 new federal employees, that still wouldn't be a major increase in the size of the federal government.

-Z
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