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

To: RetiredNow who wrote (16911)	4/15/2010 1:21:21 PM
From: Sdgla	3 Recommendations Respond to of 42652

Fact is that HC will increase the debt exponentially over the next few years without reducing the costs of health insurance 1 penny. You believe that more government spending is going to actually reduce government spending.... undeniably foolish. You believe that the solution to entitlements, SS Medicare Medicaid, that are insolvent is to put a new entitlement in place and scavenge $$ from the already insolvent programs to run it ? Laughable. Your aversion to war is no different than anyone else's... its just that you use it in your arguments for larger government.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (16911)	4/16/2010 3:44:15 PM
From: TimF	2 Recommendations Respond to of 42652

Health care bill will reduce government spending by $140B in the next 10 years and $1 trillion the decade after. That's the supposed budget impact of the program including new taxes, not the spending. Spending and taxes both go up by a lot, even if you buy the CBO's ideas about the budget balance effect, and I do not. Wars cost money and there is no return on investment. Freeing 50+ million people from repressive regimes while also striking back at those who attacked us and their supporters and allies is a return on investment. The health care program will likely have a negative net return on investment.