Walker is a shill

The logical conclusion is to privatize healthcare, then it is not the government's problem. A. Greenspan has been singing the same song. If fact when asked about SS as an issue he let loose another dirty secret. "We'll just print money". So the interviewer said "Then let's print money for Medicare." Ooops," It's much more complicated than that". (I think this was his interview with Terri Gross).

Why is healthcare such a front page devastating issue in the US, and just a topic of converstion elsewhere? Why isn't a single payer/provider system explored. Why doesn't the government use it's leverage to reduce healthcare costs?

 How the heck are insurance companies going to provide all these services and make huge profits when the government goes broke doing the same.  Insurance companies balance their books every year.  When the time comes that receipts don't equal insurance distributions plus 10% profit and 30% admin fees;  with the distributions  paying for 10% profit and 30% admin fees of the providers.  What happens then?

Medicare should be expanded, government clinics should be built and bulk purchase power be exercised. Both SS and Medicare should be a flat tax, no ceiling with a floating rate. What goes out, must go in, but no extra for Congess to syphon off. Over time, the government takes over with a VA system that is expanded, not hobbled. There nothing to preclude patients paying additional fees for special treatment. for that, they can buy insurance or go bare. The current drug benefit is a hoax with donut holes and all sorts of drug pricing flimflam. Basic universal needs are best served by centralize non-profit distribution where profit does not exist and administration costs are a few pennies in the dollar.  

by Bernard (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 56 comments) on Thursday, October 4, 2007 at 12:31:20 PM
 

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Medicare should be expanded, government clinics should be built and bulk purchase power be exercised. Both SS and Medicare should be a flat tax, no ceiling with a floating rate. What goes out, must go in, but no extra for Congess to syphon off. Over time, the government takes over with a VA system that is expanded, not hobbled

Right on, Bernard ~ I was focusing on the lack of truth and leadership which is, of course, a direct reflection of the Cheney/Bush administration . Walker may be a shill for privitization but most Americans saw this interview as another indication of the inept leadership of the Bush administration..

Allen L Roland

by Allen L Roland (879 articles, 7 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 346 comments) on Thursday, October 4, 2007 at 1:40:02 PM