On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:33 PM, b_s-wilk<[email protected]> wrote: > You have the corporate talking points well-memorized. > > Medicare has an overhead of 2-4%. For-profit companies have overhead of > 15-30% or more with the top crooks being paid huge salaries/bonuses with the > money made from not paying their customers' claims. It isn't difficult to > adjust the basis for Medicare to extend its longevity, although it isn't > "lurching towards insolvency", except that Bush used the Medicare funds to > pay for his wars instead of saving it for health care costs. That theft of > Medicare funds to pay for war--off budget--is another act that has led to > exploding debt that the current administration has to deal with. > > By expanding Medicare and returning to private nonprofits instead of taking > customers' premiums for shareholders, the costs of both Medicare and private > health care will go down, as it has in many other countries with similar > plans. Medicare costs and premiums will go down--"lurching" downward--when > the pool is increased to include younger healthier people instead of only > people over the age of 65.
If you continue to provide information that makes too much sense you are going to further confuse those who have already been confused by too much misinformation. They may then be in need of psychological help that is probably not covered by their insurance plan. Steve ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
