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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (577060)	7/22/2010 12:41:12 AM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575420

>To implement universal health care, the "existing bureaucracies" would have to be expanded in terms of power, money, and personnel. New ones would have to be created as well because of the vast expansion of the beneficiaries and the differentiation that results. The CMS runs Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP, among other things. It would likely just be expanded to accommodate more people under universal coverage. Know how many people work for the CMS? 4,100. Say it took five times as many to administer a larger program (which it probably wouldn't). That'd be 20,000. Not that many. >That alone contradicts your assertion that we have "about the right amount of government." See above. -Z