[Southack]

"This is a government program, that you are arguing will transition to a private program. I'm simply not going to accept your conjecture, based on the historical evidence. You're claiming with certainty that this program will do the exact opposite of all its predecessors."

It isn't my "conjecture." That's what is written into this Medicare bill.

Please, argue what is written in this bill.

[NittanyLion]

It isn't my "conjecture." That's what is written into this Medicare bill.

By your reading of the bill, is privatization a certainty? Or will it be tried in limited markets and adopted on a larger scale only if successful?

Furthermore, in your experience when entitlements are enacted do they never, sometimes, usually or always remain within their original scope? More importantly, are they ever discontinued?

I understand the importance of reading what's in the bill. But one would have to be quite naive to not couple their real world experience in predicting where this is heading.