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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (2640)	7/30/1999 9:48:00 PM
From: truedog	Respond to of 769670

to: Michelle Harris from: truedog The only comment I am going to make about your post is your snide misuse of the word "entitlements". Social Security can not be considered an entitlement when the money dispensed does not belong to the government in the first place. It belongs to the people who, for most of their life, were forced to send money to the SSA to be put in a supposed savings type account to be returned to the payers as of a certain age date. Little did anyone know that the bureaucratic system would leech their dollar down to 30 cents. If a person were allowed to invest the same amount of money without government interference, he would gain,by multiple times, a much better return. Again, the central government thinks it is the only body to make decisions for individuals. Whether you, or anyone else,likes it or not, that is one of the type of programs that is espoused by socialism. TD

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (2640)	7/31/1999 10:29:00 AM
From: Les H	Respond to of 769670

There are differences. Medicare requires one to pay quarterly premiums, and most carry supplemental Medigap insurance for services where Medicare coverage has gaps. I don't think Medicaid has a requirement for payment of premiums. Both programs suffer from a large amount of fraud and abuse, as do other entitlement programs. Both programs claim to cut costs, but in actuality, those costs are shifted to private payors in the form of higher prices for the same services.