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To: Little Joe who wrote (328274)	10/9/2009 11:13:07 AM
From: skinowski	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793914

Medicare works only in the sense that it does deliver medical services to the elderly at a more or less affordable cost. True - but Medicare also carries more hidden economic and societal costs than people generally know. It's a monster so big that every time it makes a move, the earth trembles. When they decide one day that they will not pay for complications which develop during the hospital stay, that immediately creates two armies of "experts". On the government's side, they will be working hard trying to screw the hospitals out of their money. On the hospital side - they will fight back for those funds. People will be taking pictures of patient's behinds, trying to document that some bed sores and infections were present prior to admission, etc., etc. There will be arguments, appeals, arbitrations.... If they'll succeed to "save" more that it costs (on the government side) to run this program, it will be proclaimed "cost-effective". Our tax dollars at work....