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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (129003)	1/21/2010 7:50:42 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 542010

Medicare is a pretty good system. Yeah, pretty good, as in could be worse. Hooray.

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (129003)	1/21/2010 8:58:03 PM
From: Katelew	Respond to of 542010

I think Lane is concerned about what might happen down the road if reimbursements keep falling. It worries me a little too. I don't think it's wise for Congress to make this their sole tool for reining in costs. As for Medicare in general, studies have shown it to be an efficient and well managed government program. Fraud, however, is rampant with docs, hospitals, and nursing homes overbilling. So policing it better might be something Congress should focus on.

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (129003)	1/22/2010 6:49:39 AM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 542010

if she has to go this far to find an example for Medicare's inadequacy, I would have to say just quite opposite to what I think she is insinuating... The topic that produced those examples was the availability of opting out of Medicare, not the adequacy of Medicare. I offered examples of how opting out of Medicare doesn't get you out from under Medicare regulation. Had the topic been Medicare's inadequacy, I would have chosen different examples. That examples from topic A don't make a case for topic B does not enable any conclusions about topic B.