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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (21705)4/22/2011 9:37:14 AM
From: Lane31 Recommendation  Read Replies (2) of 42652
 
Medicare is medicare.....anything else is something else.

Of course.

Medicare is a health care program primarily for seniors. You enroll when you turn 65 and Medicare funds most of the cost of the medical care you seek.

There is nothing in the proposal that changes the essence of the program. You still enroll when you turn 65 and Medicare still funds most of the medical care you seek. As long as that holds true, it's still Medicare. How funds get from the treasury to the provider is a matter of design.

There are many alternative designs a government could use to provide health care. If there were a proposal to change Medicare to single provider, that is, the providers, rather than being in business, were employees of the government as they are in Britain, would you see that as Medicare being destroyed?
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