Obamacare just ruined my life

[RKMBrown]

Social Darwinism personified. Bolstered by gross ignorance, false right wing propaganda, uttered by a human piece of shit.

You forgot the...."let 'em die!"

I have never had the thought in my life that equality means material equality. And I know of no liberal who forwards that belief.

The question was asked by a college student at a political forum what the difference is between Republicans and Democrats. After Peggy Noonan went off on some long drawn out answer about
The late Ted Sorensen, the man who knew John F. Kennedy's core beliefs better than anyone, said it best and in his usual word thrifty style.

"Republicans care more about property, Democrats care more about people"

Spoken like the ignorant piece of shit that you are. Unlimited health care will cost millions per US citizen. Where is the money for unlimited health care gonna come from? Huh? Where?

"Republicans care more about property, Democrats care more about people"

"It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners"
Albert Camus

Yeah I can see that from Obama's dead porn mom, dead communist drunk of a father, dead communist grandparents, brother in the straw hut, aunt on skid row on welfare, and declaration that he will abort the "mistakes" of his daughters.

Your idea of charity is to steal everyone's assets to fund your health care. What a jerk you are. Did you ever think that maybe, just maybe I'm a better arbiter to decide how to spend my families income than say you and Obama are?

But hey, asshole, if you don't agree, why don't you be a man and come help me spend my money. I assure you, I will give you exactly what you deserve when you get on my property.

 

[RKMBrown]

RK has now assumed the role of Internet Forum God.

No thanks. But I do see... some level of satire in your post. This from the god of forum satire.

Hmm..... maybe - between the two of you - you can clarify the satire for me. What I saw was the usual strawman accusation of anarchy in response to any suggestion that government should be limited in reach or scope. Was it a satire of the statist compulsion the shout 'Somalia' in response to libertarian arguments?

If so, I'll give snook points and admit it was more subtle, and funnier, than I realized.

I'm pretty sure the words he wrote did not give or provide a hint of satire. But then, that is the funny part of satire. What we don't get from a post like his, is the satire smile.

However, if you look at the "whole" post, such as his avatar with the wry smile, and his sig line with the joke for a punch line.. yeah ok he's not BFGN, he's probably doing just what he said. I'm willing to give anyone the benefit of doubt when they claim satire in an internet forum. I also, now, remember other moments of satirical relief from Snook.. I jumped the gun. I should have said something like, unless you said this with a missing satirical smile...

 

[Bfgrn]

Spoken like the ignorant piece of shit that you are. Unlimited health care will cost millions per US citizen. Where is the money for unlimited health care gonna come from? Huh? Where?

"Republicans care more about property, Democrats care more about people"

"It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners"
Albert Camus

Yeah I can see that from Obama's dead porn mom, dead communist drunk of a father, dead communist grandparents, brother in the straw hut, aunt on skid row on welfare, and declaration that he will abort the "mistakes" of his daughters.

Your idea of charity is to steal everyone's assets to fund your health care. What a jerk you are. Did you ever think that maybe, just maybe I'm a better arbiter to decide how to spend my families income than say you and Obama are?

But hey, asshole, if you don't agree, why don't you be a man and come help me spend my money. I assure you, I will give you exactly what you deserve when you get on my property.

WOW...a whole post filled with false propaganda. You are now in the right wing parrot hall of fame. What a fucking MORON you are...

The pea brain chirps: "Unlimited health care will cost millions per US citizen"

Hey pea brain, HERE is how our current 'limited' 'for profit' 'free market' health care system compares to the rest of the industrialized nations on this planet...

How are we doing pea brain??? WHO pays for this asshole??

 

[RKMBrown]

"Republicans care more about property, Democrats care more about people"

"It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners"
Albert Camus

Yeah I can see that from Obama's dead porn mom, dead communist drunk of a father, dead communist grandparents, brother in the straw hut, aunt on skid row on welfare, and declaration that he will abort the "mistakes" of his daughters.

Your idea of charity is to steal everyone's assets to fund your health care. What a jerk you are. Did you ever think that maybe, just maybe I'm a better arbiter to decide how to spend my families income than say you and Obama are?

But hey, asshole, if you don't agree, why don't you be a man and come help me spend my money. I assure you, I will give you exactly what you deserve when you get on my property.

WOW...a whole post filled with false propaganda. You are now in the right wing parrot hall of fame. What a fucking MORON you are...

The pea brain chirps: "Unlimited health care will cost millions per US citizen"

Hey pea brain, HERE is how our current 'limited' 'for profit' 'free market' health care system compares to the rest of the industrialized nations on this planet...

How are we doing pea brain??? WHO pays for this asshole??

Very odd questions but I'll answer. From that chart it looks like we are doing the best by far of all nations on the earth in allocating funds to health care. How do you read that chart?
As to your question of who pays... Well speaking for my immediate family, I pay. Speaking for my Father he pays for himself and his new wife's family. My mom died of pancreas cancer my father's health care plan paid and medicare covered that, my dad paid for for the medicare plan his whole life and he bought the supplemental insurance and he also paid the deduct-able.

You however, want to take my paycheck take my fathers paycheck, then manage who gets care by distributing our paychecks as you see fit. You are no better than a common criminal.

How would you change that chart, cut pay for health care professionals, or refuse health care for such as my mom?

 

[Vox]

"Republicans care more about property, Democrats care more about people"

"It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners"
Albert Camus

Yeah I can see that from Obama's dead porn mom, dead communist drunk of a father, dead communist grandparents, brother in the straw hut, aunt on skid row on welfare, and declaration that he will abort the "mistakes" of his daughters.

Your idea of charity is to steal everyone's assets to fund your health care. What a jerk you are. Did you ever think that maybe, just maybe I'm a better arbiter to decide how to spend my families income than say you and Obama are?

But hey, asshole, if you don't agree, why don't you be a man and come help me spend my money. I assure you, I will give you exactly what you deserve when you get on my property.

WOW...a whole post filled with false propaganda. You are now in the right wing parrot hall of fame. What a fucking MORON you are...

The pea brain chirps: "Unlimited health care will cost millions per US citizen"

Hey pea brain, HERE is how our current 'limited' 'for profit' 'free market' health care system compares to the rest of the industrialized nations on this planet...



How are we doing pea brain??? WHO pays for this asshole??

if you don't want to pay - reform EMTALA STAT and tort reform ASAP

 

[Snookie]

No thanks. But I do see... some level of satire in your post. This from the god of forum satire.

Hmm..... maybe - between the two of you - you can clarify the satire for me. What I saw was the usual strawman accusation of anarchy in response to any suggestion that government should be limited in reach or scope. Was it a satire of the statist compulsion the shout 'Somalia' in response to libertarian arguments?

If so, I'll give snook points and admit it was more subtle, and funnier, than I realized.

I'm pretty sure the words he wrote did not give or provide a hint of satire. But then, that is the funny part of satire. What we don't get from a post like his, is the satire smile.

However, if you look at the "whole" post, such as his avatar with the wry smile, and his sig line with the joke for a punch line.. yeah ok he's not BFGN, he's probably doing just what he said. I'm willing to give anyone the benefit of doubt when they claim satire in an internet forum. I also, now, remember other moments of satirical relief from Snook.. I jumped the gun. I should have said something like, unless you said this with a missing satirical smile...

I am the Jonathan Swift of us message board.

 

[Bfgrn]

Yeah I can see that from Obama's dead porn mom, dead communist drunk of a father, dead communist grandparents, brother in the straw hut, aunt on skid row on welfare, and declaration that he will abort the "mistakes" of his daughters.

Your idea of charity is to steal everyone's assets to fund your health care. What a jerk you are. Did you ever think that maybe, just maybe I'm a better arbiter to decide how to spend my families income than say you and Obama are?

But hey, asshole, if you don't agree, why don't you be a man and come help me spend my money. I assure you, I will give you exactly what you deserve when you get on my property.

WOW...a whole post filled with false propaganda. You are now in the right wing parrot hall of fame. What a fucking MORON you are...

The pea brain chirps: "Unlimited health care will cost millions per US citizen"

Hey pea brain, HERE is how our current 'limited' 'for profit' 'free market' health care system compares to the rest of the industrialized nations on this planet...

How are we doing pea brain??? WHO pays for this asshole??

Very odd questions but I'll answer. From that chart it looks like we are doing the best by far of all nations on the earth in allocating funds to health care. How do you read that chart?
As to your question of who pays... Well speaking for my immediate family, I pay. Speaking for my Father he pays for himself and his new wife's family. My mom died of pancreas cancer my father's health care plan paid and medicare covered that, my dad paid for for the medicare plan his whole life and he bought the supplemental insurance and he also paid the deduct-able.

You however, want to take my paycheck take my fathers paycheck, then manage who gets care by distributing our paychecks as you see fit. You are no better than a common criminal.

How would you change that chart, cut pay for health care professionals, or refuse health care for such as my mom?

WOW, you really are a pea brain...LOL

Per capita is a Latin prepositional phrase: It is commonly and usually used in the field of statistics in place of saying "for each person" or "per person"

Health Spending Per Capita:

Exhibit 1 shows per capita health expenditures for 2008 in U.S. dollars purchasing power parity. Health spending per capita in the United States is much higher than in other countries – at least $2,535 dollars, or 51%, higher than Norway, the next largest per capita spender. Furthermore, the United States spends nearly double the average $3,923 for the 15 countries.

Exhibit 1
Total Health Expenditure per Capita, U.S. and Selected Countries, 2008

 

[Jarlaxle]

Hmm..... maybe - between the two of you - you can clarify the satire for me. What I saw was the usual strawman accusation of anarchy in response to any suggestion that government should be limited in reach or scope. Was it a satire of the statist compulsion the shout 'Somalia' in response to libertarian arguments?

If so, I'll give snook points and admit it was more subtle, and funnier, than I realized.

I'm pretty sure the words he wrote did not give or provide a hint of satire. But then, that is the funny part of satire. What we don't get from a post like his, is the satire smile.

However, if you look at the "whole" post, such as his avatar with the wry smile, and his sig line with the joke for a punch line.. yeah ok he's not BFGN, he's probably doing just what he said. I'm willing to give anyone the benefit of doubt when they claim satire in an internet forum. I also, now, remember other moments of satirical relief from Snook.. I jumped the gun. I should have said something like, unless you said this with a missing satirical smile...

I am the Jonathan Swift of us message board.

No, you're actually the board's equivalent of village idiot. You're the dude who walks around arguing with trees.

 

[boedicca]

WOW...a whole post filled with false propaganda. You are now in the right wing parrot hall of fame. What a fucking MORON you are...

The pea brain chirps: "Unlimited health care will cost millions per US citizen"

Hey pea brain, HERE is how our current 'limited' 'for profit' 'free market' health care system compares to the rest of the industrialized nations on this planet...

How are we doing pea brain??? WHO pays for this asshole??

Very odd questions but I'll answer. From that chart it looks like we are doing the best by far of all nations on the earth in allocating funds to health care. How do you read that chart?
As to your question of who pays... Well speaking for my immediate family, I pay. Speaking for my Father he pays for himself and his new wife's family. My mom died of pancreas cancer my father's health care plan paid and medicare covered that, my dad paid for for the medicare plan his whole life and he bought the supplemental insurance and he also paid the deduct-able.

You however, want to take my paycheck take my fathers paycheck, then manage who gets care by distributing our paychecks as you see fit. You are no better than a common criminal.

How would you change that chart, cut pay for health care professionals, or refuse health care for such as my mom?

WOW, you really are a pea brain...LOL

Per capita is a Latin prepositional phrase: It is commonly and usually used in the field of statistics in place of saying "for each person" or "per person"

Health Spending Per Capita:

Exhibit 1 shows per capita health expenditures for 2008 in U.S. dollars purchasing power parity. Health spending per capita in the United States is much higher than in other countries – at least $2,535 dollars, or 51%, higher than Norway, the next largest per capita spender. Furthermore, the United States spends nearly double the average $3,923 for the 15 countries.

Exhibit 1
Total Health Expenditure per Capita, U.S. and Selected Countries, 2008

Man-o-man are you an imbecile.

A significantly large portion of the U.S. health care market has nothing to do with profit - it has to do with government transfer payments and price controls...which drive up the cost for everyone else. We do not have anything remotely akin to a free market in health care, bub.

 

[RKMBrown]

WOW...a whole post filled with false propaganda. You are now in the right wing parrot hall of fame. What a fucking MORON you are...

The pea brain chirps: "Unlimited health care will cost millions per US citizen"

Hey pea brain, HERE is how our current 'limited' 'for profit' 'free market' health care system compares to the rest of the industrialized nations on this planet...

How are we doing pea brain??? WHO pays for this asshole??

Very odd questions but I'll answer. From that chart it looks like we are doing the best by far of all nations on the earth in allocating funds to health care. How do you read that chart?
As to your question of who pays... Well speaking for my immediate family, I pay. Speaking for my Father he pays for himself and his new wife's family. My mom died of pancreas cancer my father's health care plan paid and medicare covered that, my dad paid for for the medicare plan his whole life and he bought the supplemental insurance and he also paid the deduct-able.

You however, want to take my paycheck take my fathers paycheck, then manage who gets care by distributing our paychecks as you see fit. You are no better than a common criminal.

How would you change that chart, cut pay for health care professionals, or refuse health care for such as my mom?

WOW, you really are a pea brain...LOL

Per capita is a Latin prepositional phrase: It is commonly and usually used in the field of statistics in place of saying "for each person" or "per person"

Health Spending Per Capita:

Exhibit 1 shows per capita health expenditures for 2008 in U.S. dollars purchasing power parity. Health spending per capita in the United States is much higher than in other countries – at least $2,535 dollars, or 51%, higher than Norway, the next largest per capita spender. Furthermore, the United States spends nearly double the average $3,923 for the 15 countries.

Exhibit 1
Total Health Expenditure per Capita, U.S. and Selected Countries, 2008

And how do you think us spending, by average, double what everyone else does on healthcare is proof that we are screwing up? I think you are jealous that people are not giving you the money they are spending on their health care. You want me to throw you a pitty party you little cry baby twerp?

 

[MeBelle]

Employers don't 'pay' for an employee's health insurance

Sure they do! Here's why:

Deductible Premiums
You generally can deduct premiums you pay for the following kinds of insurance related to your trade or business.

Group hospitalization and medical insurance for employees, including long-term care insurance.

Publication 535 (2012), Business Expenses



In some cases an employer can sponsor a health insurance plan.
Example:
Money-saving products – members can use pretax dollars to pay for their health insurance premiums, transportation to work, and child care.

Solutions for All Sizes -- Aetna

It is a deferred wage.

Ummmm, no.

An arrangement in which a portion of an employee's income is paid out at a date after which that income is actually earned. Examples of deferred compensation include pensions, retirement plans, and stock options. The primary benefit of most deferred compensation is the deferral of tax.

What is Deferred Compensation? definition and meaning

Deferred compensation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Your link:
http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/13/2/101.full.pdf

In late January 1994 The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Princeton University sponsored a conference entitled “Universal Coverage: How Best to Achieve It?” At that conference several prominent economists and policymakers presented papers on the pros and cons of employer and individual mandates. In response, a number of others offered comments on various aspects of the mandate question. Here Health Affairs presents the views of two respondents.

There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance.– Goethe

Excellent quote.
It fits you very well!!

 

[Snookie]

I'm pretty sure the words he wrote did not give or provide a hint of satire. But then, that is the funny part of satire. What we don't get from a post like his, is the satire smile.

However, if you look at the "whole" post, such as his avatar with the wry smile, and his sig line with the joke for a punch line.. yeah ok he's not BFGN, he's probably doing just what he said. I'm willing to give anyone the benefit of doubt when they claim satire in an internet forum. I also, now, remember other moments of satirical relief from Snook.. I jumped the gun. I should have said something like, unless you said this with a missing satirical smile...

I am the Jonathan Swift of us message board.

No, you're actually the board's equivalent of village idiot. You're the dude who walks around arguing with trees.

Not true.

 

[RKMBrown]

I am the Jonathan Swift of us message board.

No, you're actually the board's equivalent of village idiot. You're the dude who walks around arguing with trees.

Not true.

Thx. I've been called a lot of things. But never a tree.

 

[daws101]

Hey, you're the one bashing 2AD's job. Not me. Oh, and you must spend all of your time scouring these boards looking for an opportunity to troll. Who says you have to post a lot to be here all the time?

Dumbass.

remember guys all the noise is coming from a guy who uses a character from an rpg(fantasy role playing game) as an avatar.
that would not be a problem except he thinks he is the avatar.

Haha! Man, you've been led like the gullible idiot you are. But then again, that's rich coming from someone comparing members of the Republican Party to the Nazis in his.

you did change your avatar...

 

[daws101]

Obama Lie

Obama promises not to add a dime to the deficit. Now or in the future. Period - YouTube

REALITY

CBO: Obamacare costs double to $1.8 trillion in first decade | WashingtonExaminer.com

When President Obama was selling his health care legislation to Congress, he declared that “the plan I’m proposing will cost around $900 billion over 10 years.” But with the law’s major provisions set to kick in next year, a new analysis by the Congressional Budget Office projects that the law will cost double that, or $1.8 trillion.

that's a PROJECTION not a result.

 

[Snookie]

No, you're actually the board's equivalent of village idiot. You're the dude who walks around arguing with trees.

Not true.

Thx. I've been called a lot of things. But never a tree.

Only God can make a tree.

I THINK that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the sweet earth's flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day, 5
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain. 10

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

 

[SteadyMercury]

Only God can make a tree.

Trees can make more trees, nothing to do with magic.

 

[daws101]

Only God can make a tree.

Trees can make more trees, nothing to do with magic.

magic has nothing to with magic.

 

[Bfgrn]

Very odd questions but I'll answer. From that chart it looks like we are doing the best by far of all nations on the earth in allocating funds to health care. How do you read that chart?
As to your question of who pays... Well speaking for my immediate family, I pay. Speaking for my Father he pays for himself and his new wife's family. My mom died of pancreas cancer my father's health care plan paid and medicare covered that, my dad paid for for the medicare plan his whole life and he bought the supplemental insurance and he also paid the deduct-able.

You however, want to take my paycheck take my fathers paycheck, then manage who gets care by distributing our paychecks as you see fit. You are no better than a common criminal.

How would you change that chart, cut pay for health care professionals, or refuse health care for such as my mom?

WOW, you really are a pea brain...LOL

Per capita is a Latin prepositional phrase: It is commonly and usually used in the field of statistics in place of saying "for each person" or "per person"

Health Spending Per Capita:

Exhibit 1 shows per capita health expenditures for 2008 in U.S. dollars purchasing power parity. Health spending per capita in the United States is much higher than in other countries – at least $2,535 dollars, or 51%, higher than Norway, the next largest per capita spender. Furthermore, the United States spends nearly double the average $3,923 for the 15 countries.

Exhibit 1
Total Health Expenditure per Capita, U.S. and Selected Countries, 2008

Man-o-man are you an imbecile.

A significantly large portion of the U.S. health care market has nothing to do with profit - it has to do with government transfer payments and price controls...which drive up the cost for everyone else. We do not have anything remotely akin to a free market in health care, bub.

Another pea brain parrot squawks.

FALSE...government has done a much better job of keeping prices down than the private 'for profit' insurance cartels.

Says WHO? How about a market-driven entrepreneur??

Is Medicare Cost Effective?

Bill Brody, M.D. President, Salk Institute for Biomedical Research

Dr. William R. Brody, an acclaimed physician-scientist, entrepreneur and university leader, joined the Salk Institute for Biological Studies on March 2, 2009 after 12 years as president of The Johns Hopkins University.

June 13, 2003

Is Medicare Cost Effective?

I recently spent a half-day in a meeting discussing a number of issues regarding Medicare. Most of us on the provider side of the street view Medicare as this multiheaded bureaucracy with more pages of regulations than the Internal Revenue Service's tax code. However, I came away from the meeting with some (to me at least) shocking revelations:

Medicare beneficiaries are overwhelmingly satisfied with their Medicare coverage, except for the absence of prescription drug benefits;

The administrative costs of Medicare are lower than any other large health plan.

In fact, Medicare is very efficient by any objective means:

According to the Urban Institute's Marilyn Moon, who testified before the Senate Committee on Aging, Medicare expenditures between 1970 and 2000 grew more slowly than those of the private sector. Initially, from 1965 through the 1980s, Medicare and private insurance costs doubled in tandem. Then Medicare tightened up, and per capita expenditures grew more slowly than private insurance, creating a significant gap. In the 1990s, private insurers got more serious about controlling their costs, and the gap narrowed. But by 2000, Medicare per capita expenditures remained significantly lower than the private sector.

Moon argues somewhat convincingly that Medicare has been a success. While not necessarily denying that certain reforms might be needed, she stresses the importance of preserving three essential tenets of the program:

1. Its universal coverage nature creates the ability to redistribute benefits to those who are neediest.

2. It pools risk in order to share the burdens of health care among the healthy and the sick.

3. Through Medicare, the government protects the rights of all beneficiaries to essential health care.

It has been argued that, in part, Medicare's cost effectiveness arises from the fact that it does not need to expend funds on marketing and sales-functions that are obligatory for the success of competitive, private-sector health plans. Moreover, some argue that the competitive model for health insurance has not been successful. In a market-driven economy, the healthy can and will change health plans for savings of only a few dollars a month, while the sick must remain in their existing plan in order to retain their physicians. Such behaviors lead to asymmetric risk pools and cost inequities.

This was all sobering news to a market-driven entrepreneur such as yours truly. However, given the perverse incentives that frequently drive behavior in health care, my take-home lesson is that there are examples in the success of Medicare we can apply to other sectors of our population.

 

[RKMBrown]

WOW, you really are a pea brain...LOL

Per capita is a Latin prepositional phrase: It is commonly and usually used in the field of statistics in place of saying "for each person" or "per person"

Health Spending Per Capita:

Exhibit 1 shows per capita health expenditures for 2008 in U.S. dollars purchasing power parity. Health spending per capita in the United States is much higher than in other countries – at least $2,535 dollars, or 51%, higher than Norway, the next largest per capita spender. Furthermore, the United States spends nearly double the average $3,923 for the 15 countries.

Exhibit 1
Total Health Expenditure per Capita, U.S. and Selected Countries, 2008

Man-o-man are you an imbecile.

A significantly large portion of the U.S. health care market has nothing to do with profit - it has to do with government transfer payments and price controls...which drive up the cost for everyone else. We do not have anything remotely akin to a free market in health care, bub.

Another pea brain parrot squawks.

FALSE...government has done a much better job of keeping prices down than the private 'for profit' insurance cartels.

Says WHO? How about a market-driven entrepreneur??

Is Medicare Cost Effective?

Bill Brody, M.D. President, Salk Institute for Biomedical Research

Dr. William R. Brody, an acclaimed physician-scientist, entrepreneur and university leader, joined the Salk Institute for Biological Studies on March 2, 2009 after 12 years as president of The Johns Hopkins University.

June 13, 2003

Is Medicare Cost Effective?

I recently spent a half-day in a meeting discussing a number of issues regarding Medicare. Most of us on the provider side of the street view Medicare as this multiheaded bureaucracy with more pages of regulations than the Internal Revenue Service's tax code. However, I came away from the meeting with some (to me at least) shocking revelations:

Medicare beneficiaries are overwhelmingly satisfied with their Medicare coverage, except for the absence of prescription drug benefits;

The administrative costs of Medicare are lower than any other large health plan.

In fact, Medicare is very efficient by any objective means:

According to the Urban Institute's Marilyn Moon, who testified before the Senate Committee on Aging, Medicare expenditures between 1970 and 2000 grew more slowly than those of the private sector. Initially, from 1965 through the 1980s, Medicare and private insurance costs doubled in tandem. Then Medicare tightened up, and per capita expenditures grew more slowly than private insurance, creating a significant gap. In the 1990s, private insurers got more serious about controlling their costs, and the gap narrowed. But by 2000, Medicare per capita expenditures remained significantly lower than the private sector.

Moon argues somewhat convincingly that Medicare has been a success. While not necessarily denying that certain reforms might be needed, she stresses the importance of preserving three essential tenets of the program:

1. Its universal coverage nature creates the ability to redistribute benefits to those who are neediest.

2. It pools risk in order to share the burdens of health care among the healthy and the sick.

3. Through Medicare, the government protects the rights of all beneficiaries to essential health care.

It has been argued that, in part, Medicare's cost effectiveness arises from the fact that it does not need to expend funds on marketing and sales-functions that are obligatory for the success of competitive, private-sector health plans. Moreover, some argue that the competitive model for health insurance has not been successful. In a market-driven economy, the healthy can and will change health plans for savings of only a few dollars a month, while the sick must remain in their existing plan in order to retain their physicians. Such behaviors lead to asymmetric risk pools and cost inequities.

This was all sobering news to a market-driven entrepreneur such as yours truly. However, given the perverse incentives that frequently drive behavior in health care, my take-home lesson is that there are examples in the success of Medicare we can apply to other sectors of our population.

Rofl how many times are you gonna post things you don't understand. What are you ten? Obama care is an attack on Medicare you fool.