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

To: i-node who wrote (41490)	3/19/2017 2:06:04 PM
From: skinowski	1 Recommendation Recommended By i-node Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Did y'all notice this one? RT@kausmickey We have a hashtag. It's all over ... #Medicare55 https://t.co/towCXODxZY Let's give every American a pony! And a farm! pic.twitter.com/36m3H1kKA3 — Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) March 19, 2017

To: i-node who wrote (41490)	3/19/2017 2:20:05 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 42652

I'm sorry. I now see you were talking about his campaign promises. I'm assuming we've moved on to just trying to provide adequate coverage. I think the idea of covering "everyone" is silly. Even if you COULD do it, it would be nuts to do so.

To: i-node who wrote (41490)	3/30/2017 12:35:26 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Tort reform can help, but some of its already been done, and its probably a marginal issue in terms of future savings. Big dollar amounts, but not the type of thing that can be a major part of resolving the budgetary problems of the federal government. Waste fraud and abuse? Everyone claims to want to cut them and many actually do want to cut them, but its not like they are a seperare line item that you can simply defund. You can't eliminate them and greatly reducing them is very hard, and isn't a one time effort, if you succeed in a big reduction (which is far easier said than done, and usually doesn't happen even when tried) they can creep back up again. Also efforts to reduceparts of "waste fraud and abuse", can work at cross purposes. For example you can reduce fraud by more monitoring and reporting and investigation, but all that's expensive and could be considered a form of waste (esp. when it costs more than the savings from eliminated fraud which can easily happen).