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

To: TimF who wrote (4423)	2/11/2008 9:29:56 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

"None of that means that Medicare doesn't dwarf Iraq as a fiscal issue" Why don't you provide some data? " Look at its average cost per year since its started and you get a lower figure. Look 10 years down the line and the cost might be zero, and if it isn't zero it will be much lower than today's cost.' Look at the average cost of Medicare and you'll also get a lower figure, but Medicare is paid for, that's the important point. Chinese money is paying for the war and has to be paid back eventually. "Look 10 years down the road".....you sound like Dick Cheney and the Iraqi oil revenues will pay for it all...right? "Medicare has never run a debt although it is " Evidence? You keep making statements as though I shouldn't doubt you, but you make too many. "the burden of Medicare. " If we can handle the burden of Iraq, Medicare is a cinch...all it takes is money...and the right people in Washington.