dilettantedude

First Read of House Health Care Reform Act (H.R. 3200)

this is simply ignorant. overhead expense in medicare is a bit above 3%, compared with 20% - 25% for private plans. i suppose if it actually is in terrible shape (evidence, please?), then our private pay scheme is far worse. we could easily pay for an expansion of the medicare program for all citizens with far lower overhead by using the huge private healthcare premiums we all pay today anyway.

the us is the only industrialized country in the world that would rather use its money to maintain a huge offensive standing invasion force and kill foreigners for oil, than to pay for health care and a decent education for its citizens.

next time please do try to use some facts and an intelligent rationale.


On Jul 16 11:39 AM SPOTS wrote:

> As a medicare and health care insider, I have said for 3 years that
> it was absolutely certain that Congress would create a national insurance
> plan. The reason that it assuredly will happen is that medicare
> is in impossibly terrible shape. Much worse than the people understand.
> The numbers say it will fold in 2017. But even that near date paints
> it much better than it is.
>
> So the only way out is to bury the disastrous numbers in a national
> health plan. The plan is in 2 basic stages: 1) create a national
> insurance plan funded by taxpayers 2) merge it with medicare, probably
> under the guise of saving overhead costs. 3) Use the tax increases
> to prop up medicare.
>
> To summarize: much less medical care for much more tax, for everyone.