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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (1622)	4/8/2007 2:04:26 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 42652

You didn't answer the question; why did you post it if you disagree with it? Because most of it's right? He hust didn't give sufficient consideration to that part. paperwork Why, there's no waste on useless, meaningless paperwok involved with Medicare coverage, right? You ever actually MET anyone on Medicare and talked to them about it? You think so many docs refuse to take it just because they love turning away easy money? Or did you think those $1000 DOD hammers were an anomaly just to DOD? Talk to anyone who knows Milspec requirements and testing to them and you might find out different. The gov't doesn't HAVE to worry about cost; it can just print more money or steal more from YOU. also siphon off a substantial fraction of the money as profits. When they can get them. Insurance is a game of odds, a form of gambling. If you don't take medical coverage, you are gambling you won't get sick or injured. If you issue one, you are gambling that between that policy and all the rest, you can take in more than you pay out. It is a long-recognized and long-accepted method of spreading risk. Program A would provide essential health care to the eight million uninsured children in this country. What happens that huge portion of the population between 18 and 65? Are they hung out to dry? Program A is the proposal by Senator Hillary Clinton and Representative John Dingell to cover all children by expanding the highly successful State Children’s Health Insurance Program. To pay for that expansion, Democrats are talking about saving money by shutting down Program B, the huge subsidy to private insurance plans for Medicare recipients — so-called Medicare Advantage plans — created by the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act. So now grandpa anf grandma get left out in the cold too? I'd expect better even from Shrillary. nobody is proposing that Medicare ban private plans — all that’s on the table is requiring that they compete with traditional Medicare, run directly by the government, on a fair basis. Nothing like competition between private gotta-at-least-break-even private enterprise and "Well, we can ALWAYS steal more from the dumb taxpayer!" gov't programs. They are, instead, political, having to do with the long-term battle over the future of the welfare state. This is ome battle the administration had better win. Like all the free choices of competent docs you get with your HMOs? And how easy it is to see a specialist when needed? Well, then, you're going to LOVE national health!