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To: Southack
You haven't a clue what will happen. You just have this enormous faith that a new trillion dollar government program will somehow liberate us from high health costs and intrusive government. Why? Because it employs words like "privatization" and "preventive medicine" in its justification.

You may reply that I don't have a clue what will happen either. But I would point out that the history of huge government entitlement programs invariably proves that they cost far more than originally intended and spawn costly and wildly destructive unintended consequences never dreamed of by their pie-in-the-sky drafters.

85 posted on 12/08/2003 4:44:37 PM PST by Kevin Curry
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To: Kevin Curry
"You just have this enormous faith that a new trillion dollar government program will somehow liberate us from high health costs and intrusive government. Why? Because it employs words like "privatization" and "preventive medicine" in its justification."

Why the need to embellish?

This Medicare Reform law authorizes only $39.5 Billion per year, flat rate, for each of ten years.

Why not use the real numbers, do they not frighten people enough to make your case? Does it really take a "trillion dollars" to make your point that this is a bad bill, or can you argue your case convincingly while using the actual, non-embellished numbers?

88 posted on 12/08/2003 5:39:53 PM PST by Southack (Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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