Sactowndog
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- Jul 4, 2011
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I love to hear Republican code and figuring out the actual message. Paul Ryan was still hawking his main talking points starting out with Democrats won't negotiate, be flexible or give an inch and pushing the two main aspects of his economic "plan".
Number one was "Health Care":
"We need to move our Health Care to the private sector to "save money"."
So we move the Medicare and possibly the VA to Health Care companies. Remember, these companies don't actually do anything "medical". They don't own hospitals or employ doctors or nurses. They are "middle men" only. They skim money off insurance policies for their "fair share" for "doing the paperwork". This is how they are able to pay a CEO bonus for Aetna or Chigna more than $100,000,000.00 or even more. Sometimes much more.
Dean this is not completely true. Companies like Kaiser do actually do something medical. We do need to save money by moving seniors to HMO's like the rest of us and privatising the VA. They have an expertise in trauma that could be shared with others.
We will ultimately have a choice. Pay for unconstrained health care for seniors and do nothing else or modify health care for seniors.
The only question I can see is do we mandate some kind of floor.