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

To: Lane3 who wrote (8849)	8/30/2009 11:11:06 AM
From: gg cox	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

Thanks for posting that. <<Seniors live in America's version of Canada. They have single-payer health care. And they love it. They love it so much that they've got the chairman of the RNC swearing to protect it.>> lol ...worth a repeat.

To: Lane3 who wrote (8849)	8/30/2009 1:47:35 PM
From: i-node	2 Recommendations Respond to of 42652

Seniors live in America's version of Canada. They have single-payer health care. And they love it. They love it so much that they've got the chairman of the RNC swearing to protect it. This morning George Will, as is typical, made the concise point that while Obama is proclaiming Medicare a success, "in the next breath" he goes on to talk about it being broke. While we all feel "entitled" to Medicare (after all, we have paid for it) at age 65, the reality is that it is a FAILED social program. As is Social Security. The actuarial science behind these programs failed through no fault of its own. It is no surprise, as projecting ANYTHING 10 years into the future is a near impossible task. When you get politicians tinkering with the programs, expanding benefits, and not being able to reign in expenditures when problems present, it is not a surprise that the programs go on to fail 40 or 50 years down the road. Any kind of "retirement" benefit that only lasts 50 or 100 years before insolvency is, in my mind a failure.