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peristaltor ([personal profile] peristaltor) wrote in [personal profile] timelets 2019-04-16 01:02 am (UTC)

Of course, which completely misses the point. The reason it was inadequately funded to begin with was to drive/let it slip it to bankruptcy, so that politicians who hate anything smacking of New Deal social nets could just kill it dead.

If one diverts even a bit of the private health coverage dollars, one could both save Medicare without additional federal funding and cut quite a bit of the waste inherent in the private business model (waste here being the waste at the top of the corporate chain; similar roles played in public administration cost about 1/10th to 1/100th private, depending upon which private corp is examined).

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