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To: Alighieri who wrote (498323)	7/26/2009 5:39:48 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1578294

>> Which makes the system screwed up, doesn't it? The system is not perfect. But having private insurance companies subsidizing Medicare is not THE problem. My understanding of THE problem is that overall health care costs are too high. The two biggest controllable components of that cost are a) Malpractice costs, estimated to be as high as 9% of the total cost, and b) Medicare/medicaid fraud, estimated at a trillion dollars over a decade ($100B/y), a problem which mysteriously is significant ONLY for government-run programs. Yet, not ONE of the Democrat proposals (both of these items are at the TOP of the Republican issues lists) addresses either of these issues. The reason is that the Democrat proposals focus on the goal of nationalizing health care rather than what OUGHT to be the goal, which is to fix the problems. You bash me for not talking about what might be done, but all you've done is echo the party line that we need nationalized health care, which is a non-starter.