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Hey, Democrats - here's what you're going to be running againstin a year.
On 6/14/2011 1:01 PM, F. George McDuffee wrote:
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:43:46 -0500, Jeff M wrote: snip Well, as the health economists Austin Frakt and Aaron Carroll document, right now Americans in their early 60s without health insurance routinely delay needed care, only to become very expensive Medicare recipients once they reach 65. This pattern would be even stronger and more destructive if Medicare eligibility were delayed. As a result, Mr. Frakt and Mr. Carroll suggest, Medicare spending might actually go up, not down, under Mr. Lieberman’s proposal. snip It could even get worse. Under the current law, if you go to an emergency room you *MUST* be treated, regardless of your ability to pay. This is already driving many hospitals out of business, and many others are shutting their emergency room. 65& 66 year olds won't stop getting sick or having accidents/falls just because they have no medical coverage, and the local taxpayers and other hospital users will have to make up the shortfall. This is also a good way to convert a mild health care situation, which is not covered, into a medical crisis requiring heroic medical intervention in the ER which is covered, albeit not through Medicare, and at much greater expense to society, unless euthanasia is mandated. Far from reducing Medicare coverage, this is an argument for progressively *LOWERING* the age for Medicare coverage. For example, if the minimum age for Medicare coverage was reduced to 60, does anyone have good numbers on how much Medicare would increase, and the private insurance costs decrease. I would bet, without seeing the numbers, a large aggrigate/socitial cost savings would be realized, along with considerable cost savings for their employers for their medical coverage. This appears to be yet another political attempt by Congress to pauperize the middle class. Why does Congress and the governmental bureaucracy hate the American people so much? Because the privileged class pays them to. Hawke |
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