Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Post-Crash Index-Moderated -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Roads End who wrote (89719)	4/29/2013 1:03:51 PM
From: GST	7 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 119362

The cold hard truth is we are being fleeced by a health care system that bleeds us dry and then leaves us to suffer without care after driving us bankrupt. If I was a lobbyist for this corrupt system, I would spread as much BS as possible about dat big bad ol guberment and Obamacare. What we have now is what you get when very clever people manipulate people like those on this thread who want so badly to believe they think for themselves when in fact they are being led around by the nose by powerful private interests that don't care if you live or die.

To: Roads End who wrote (89719)	4/29/2013 1:13:28 PM
From: Horgad	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 119362

If we switched tomorrow to 100% public without first addressing how to better spend the money (like with the notorious death panels), the root problem would still exist because the per capita expenditure from Medicare-Medicaid is also over the top. There would be an immediate "small" savings of ~100 billion as private takes 11-14% in overhead and Medicare-Medicaid only takes 6%, but we would still be far ahead of the pack in per capita expenditures...