Jack Stein wrote:

Yes, well currently Medicare is underfunded by how many trillions of
dollars? Now, add in the rest of the country and you don't need much
imagination to see that the 80-85% that are happy with their current
care will soon be getting screwed as the government is FORCED to reign
in costs. This is a given, not much thought needed to see it won't
work, and doesn't work any where else. True, some work may need done
on the 15-20% that are not happy, but I can tell you that before
Clinton ****ed with Medicaid, most likely with the goal of screwing
the poor folk so they would support full socialized medicine,
everyone was covered in the US.

I predict: The government will NOT reign in costs significantly. The
government will INCREASE what workers pay into Medicare.


For anyone following this, here is what she did... She was doing a
load of laundry and had the lid up on the washer. She picked up a
gallon of bleach in a plastic container and it slipped out of her
hand, and hit the side of the washer, squirting out a huge amount of
bleach directly in her eyes. The bleach burnt the top layer of her
eyes right off, more in one than the other, but it was really, really
painful, and really really dangerous. She was very lucky.



She placed a tremendous load on the health-care delivery system when a very
simple government requirment of eye-wash fountains in every household would
have not only saved her the pain and inconvenience, but would have held down
health-care costs.