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Post by ptsdthor on Aug 13, 2009 20:21:19 GMT -8
Right now, Medicare (elderly), Medicaid (poor) and Private Employer based health care (working Middle Class) is funded by different sources and they can be increased or reduced without necessarily causing an increase or decrease in the other forms of health care. If Obamacare is passed, the Dems will break down the walls of Medicare, Medicaid and Employer provided health care and lump everybody together thus making health care spending on particular demographics a Zero Sum Game for all. After you raise taxes and add 47 million new beneficiaries, over time, you will have about 135 (+/-) million all looking at each other vying for the same tax dollar. Right now, the elderly consume about 70 percent of all medical costs in the US. And if 47 million new beneficiaries come in (mostly under-employed) they will suck up a sizable amount of resources and associated taxes (with less than robust tax revenue associated with their participation BTW). And if Obama says he is going to reduce costs, who do you think will bear the brunt of those reductions? The elderly first and the working middle class second. Oh - but think of the privilege to make Obama, Michael Moore, the Unions and the Malpractice Lawyers happy. chicagoboyz.net/archives/8627.html
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Post by davdesid on Aug 14, 2009 13:49:41 GMT -8
Of those "47 million uninsured", it should be noted that 18 million make more than 50K a year, and 10 million of those make more than 75K. they choose not to buy insurance. Another 10 million are not US citizens. 14 million are eligible for Medicaid or the infamous SCHIP program.
Bottom line is there are only about 8 million who fall through the cracks because they don't qualify for help and can't afford insurance. That's less than 3% of the population. And even they get ER service, because that's the law.
We don't need to force 300 million people into a "one-size-fits-all" multi-trillion dollar government program for the sake of 3 percent.
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