[lbo-talk] Why discussing health care is so difficult

[Mr. X]

I believe the confusion about medicare is that it uses private insurance companies to process claims and send out claim letters. These letters have the logos of that insurance company so it could appear that medicare is actally a private insurance if you did not pay close attention
 
peace,

Jim Davis 
Ozark Bioregion, USA 
Planet Gaia

http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/historical-materialism/7346550

----- Original Message ----
> From: Matthias Wasser <matthias.wasser at gmail.com>
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 7:42:30 AM
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Why discussing health care is so difficult
> 
> Might we be misreading this?
> 
> Someone who knows what Medicare is and was asked whether the government
> should "stay out" of it would probably interpret it as asking whether
> Medicare should continue to have the same setup as it has currently. This is
> is likely an unfeasible opinion, depending on how broadly it is stated, but
> it's not as crazy as thinking Medicare is like some private thing.
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