On Sep 25, 2009, at 1:12 PM, Mark Rickling wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I oppose the admin's plan. It should fail. Cutting Medicare
>> Advantage as a
>> way of subsidizing the purchase of private insurance is one of the
>> many
>> reasons it stinks.
>
> Sure, but Medicare Advantage already is the subsidized purchase of
> private insurance.
Yes. But the politics of taking away something people have to pay for someone else's dubious benefits really stink.