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To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (433160)	6/26/2011 1:14:16 PM
From: skinowski	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794035

I would prefer if my health insurance premiums would not average a 15% increase per year The question is - where is the money going? The much maligned docs get a total of about 10-11% of the healthcare dollars, much of which is spent on salaries for their employees and other costs. I can assure you that they, most likely, received just about NONE of that 15% annual increase. So, where is the money going? It is fascinating that with all the concern and all the talk on this subject, no one knows how our healthcare funds are actually spent. Even simple basic facts like what percent of Medicare dollars go to fund each part of Medicare is hard to come by. Wouldn't it be interesting to know how those percentages kept changing throughout the history of the program? Hard to fix something if we don't even know where things stand. The accusations against Ryan that he wants to "privatize" Medicare is pure demagoguery. The way things are done today, Medicare already is administered by private insurance companies. Ryan's plan would introduce some competition and shake up the existing monopolies. It would be a step in the right direction.