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

To: Eric who wrote (11844)11/24/2009 10:50:52 PM
From: i-node1 Recommendation  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 42652
 
>>> That 24% number came from the documentary "Sick in America" that aired on PBS Frontline recently.

If you are interested in being informed on this subject you would do well to forget about Frontline, which has an agenda roughly equivalent to that of Michael Moore in "Sicko".



To: Eric who wrote (11844)11/25/2009 7:33:40 AM
From: Lane32 Recommendations  Respond to of 42652
 
That 24% number came from the documentary "Sick in America" that aired on PBS Frontline recently

There are a lot of "mistakes" in the numbers that get thrown around by various advocates. Advocates tend not to look behind the numbers when superficial treatment is salable and sexy.

Nonetheless, there are ways that overhead could be reduced. I don't see anything in the pending legislation that is directly on point. Guess they just overlooked that...


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