"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?
The true cost of this boondoggle over the next ten to 20 years will be stupifying.
I still recall the verbal scat of foolish politcos who assured us Johnson's "Great Society" would pay for itself.
Will you admit you have misplaced faith in the capacity and will of government to keep entitlement programs from growing out of control?