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Originally Posted by vivaldirules
I hear you. But I hold out one (very) small hope that Medicare struggles to stay solvent because it is a government run program amidst a larger free market health care system. I can imagine that it doesn't reap all the benefits of lower insurance costs and maybe of lower costs in general. Perhaps (I confess that I'm reaching here, so don't beat me up) that if the majority of health care was a federally run system, those benefits might be gained.
Next up, I'll recite from the tale of the Easter bunny.
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I'm not going to beat you up. :scritch:behind:doggie's
The government is not using the big bad insurance companies, they are the insurance company. The providers have been squeezed for years, to the point to where some providers don't consider it worth their while to even handle the patients. And still the costs are out of control.
Seriously, if it worked, I'd say just expand it to everybody. But it isn't, so I can't see the long-term improvement over the existing system of the new system. I can't see it more being more efficient, in toto, I just see providers being squeezed further on all their patients. Then they'll leave, or worse not even go into medicine, and it'll spiral downward, with politicians pointing fingers, taking bri... excuse me, getting campaign contributions, and acting like there's some magic wand to make all the troubles go away.
Shrug. That's not what most people want to hear...