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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (119903)	11/10/2009 12:10:42 PM
From: Knighty Tin	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 132070

How is a broke state like Ohio going to implement a public option? I can see how efficient Medicare is. Medicare pays 80% of coverage and a supplement pays UP TO 20%. My Mother's private insurance supplement is nearly 5 times as high as her Medicare payment. Admittedly, Medicare payments are too low and a new public plan needs much more rational fees. But there is a hell of a lot of room in that 500% premium for one fourth the coverage rip off the private insurers are scamming. The main things I am worried about is Congress suckering in to allow private insurers to keep their rip offs in place (and maybe add more) and allowing the insurance crooks to cherry pick the healthy folks while the public option is only for the patients they do not want. BTW, all of those "deficits" are already being paid by individuals and corporations in the inefficiency of a for-orofit fragmented insurace industry along with welfare kicking in to pay for those in emergency rooms without insurance. In fact, my guess is that they are much higher.