Oh, yeah. If my choices are "buy into Medicare or buy into a for-profit insurance company", tell me where I sign up for Medicare. As I understand it, the mandate in the current HCR bill is going to end up being an insurance company hand out. Yeah, they'll have to take on all those currently uninsured pre-conditions, but they're also going to be getting a lot of healthy people who couldn't afford it before, and are mostly buying it now because 1) they have to and 2) government subsidies. And they still won't have any serious competition. Considering how well the current industry's handled things, I'd rather take my chances on Medicare.
And maybe this will give us a good reason to fix Medicare too.
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Date: 2010-03-18 04:39 pm (UTC)And maybe this will give us a good reason to fix Medicare too.
(Is nearly socialist, ohnoes)