Medicare is great because it does not need to worry about costs. There are plenty of people paying into it to support the current crop of seniors Only the futures projections carry the huge costs ,costs that are even greater then social security. Now add more people and costs goes gonzo. It will go to rationing. No bypasses after 80.
Wait, there is hope for The One, his Approval index ticked up a point to -7 today.. http://www.rasmussenreports.com/pub...ministration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
I signed up for it today actually, and that knowing that it went negative last year, when the economy was not that bad.... In 2008 it started taking in less than it pays out. Not hearing that on the MMS? Go figure! All this socialism, it's like a bad investment that you are not allowed to sell... oh wait, it IS a bad investment that you are not allowed to sell...
We can't afford it. Head of the bipartisan Congressional Budget Office testified that not only will this not decrease health care costs, it will actually increase them drastically. (Come on use some common sense - - which doesn't seem to be so common nowadays. Where is government efficient ? Government interference in health care - - through Medicare, Medicade, etc is the reason why the health care system is broken.) To the goose steppers out there blindly marching in step with whatever O says, - - this isn't about reducing health care costs - - its about controlling your lives & bribing you to get re- elected. When the politicians control your health care, they control you. Of course, there seem to be plenty of you out there too dumb to see that or are so pathetic that they like the idea. Oh Hail Obama ! (And to all you Republicans clucking away - - - where were you when Bush was spending like crazy and expanding the Federal government - - just like all lawyer/liar/politicians do ?) - - -