Posted by
raytex on Thursday, May 21, 2009 11:53:00 PM
The federal government already runs one national health care system for those over the age of 65; it's called Medicare.
Medicare is underfunded and is growing broke. The only way to fix this is to raise everyone's taxes. Medicare pays poorly.
As a result many doctors and medical facilities will not treat Medicare patients. Medicare's coverage is not very good either.
Seniors must have a second, private insurance policy to cover what Medicare doesn't pay for or they risk going broke from
medical expenses.
Nationalizing our healthcare system is nothing more than government creating a Medicare program for everyone -- Universal Medicare.
So, why does anyone want national healthcare. It won't be any better than Medicare. If it is, why doesn't the government fix Medicare
first and show us how wonderful a government run healthcare system can be? It will definitely be worse than Medicare. It will cost us all
more in taxes and it will go broke faster.