[caper gal 1]

What we need to do is absolutely DEMAND of our representatives that as outrageous as it seems, what we need is less, not more, government intervention in the health care system in order to provide more affordable and better quality health care to Americans. In other words, we need to restore it to what it was before they screwed it up in the first place.

It is simple ECON 101 to see that private market and public sector intervention cannot co-exist competitively.

[RobbyS]

The problem with Medicare and medicaid is that old folks like me use a lot more medical services than younger people do. The system would be a lot cheaper if it kicked in at age 70, When Social security started in 1935, not a great many people lived much past 65. Now we have as many people older than 100 than we had people older than 75 in 1935. But one reason for this is that we use a lot of money to keep going, sort of like a car with 200,000 miles on it. The way to reduce this cost is obvious: limit care for the aged. However, we old folks are a formidable voting block and as the Boomers joins us, a huge one, bigger than, say. two-parent families.