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

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (8482)	8/20/2009 11:33:14 AM
From: i-node	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

If single payer will control health care expenses and most health care costs occur near death (during medicare years iow) why isn't medicare (single payer insurance) controlling our health care costs? This is the question that just goes on and on, unanswered by anyone. It is being asked at these town halls, and the answers are nebulous, at best, but typically ignorant. And it is particularly relevant in light of the fact that private insurance companies effectively subsidize Medicare. Yet, when this question is posed to single payer proponents -- like RW and other liberals, it never quite seems to be explained.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (8482)	8/20/2009 11:38:12 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

...why isn't medicare (single payer insurance) controlling our health care costs? Medicare established hospice about twenty years ago. I imagine that that slowed the escalation of costs somewhat.