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

To: Lane3 who wrote (19956)	11/11/2010 7:27:53 AM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

That's not much free market...

To: Lane3 who wrote (19956)	11/11/2010 9:52:17 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Last year there were 46M Medicare enrollees. In December 2009 there were roughly 49 million Medicaid enrollees -- so, you have roughly 95 Million between those two alone. So, unless the population is nearly 600 Million, the 16% figure is a pretty substantial understatement. Tricare, I don't know where one would get those figures but the numbers are small by comparison. Obamacare is projected to add 16 Million new Medicaid enrollees over ten years, if memory serves.