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

To: bentway who wrote (11049)	11/4/2009 6:00:03 PM
From: i-node	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Private insurance doesn't reveal IT's fraud rate. They don't, but we know from knowledgeable industry observers that it is a tiny fraction of the Medicare/Medicaid fraud rate. But, we do know that ALL the money that feeds their bottom line doesn't go to making a person healthy. And neither does Medicare's or Medicaid's. The job of Medicare/caid and insurance companies is not to "make people healthy". It is to provide finance for the health care industry. And private insurance clearly does a far better job than government insurance. The simple truth is that a private insurer who allowed the kind of fraud Medicare/caid allows could not stay in business because they do not have the deep pockets that a government can provide.