From: hrubin@skew.stat.purdue.edu   
      
   On 2014-01-03, conklin  wrote:   
   > Our universal single-payer health-care plan for older Americans, Medicare,   
   > has lower costs and lower overhead than the system serving those under age   
   > 65. If everyone in the U.S. was on Medicare, the savings would move the   
   > federal budget from deficit to surplus.   
      
   Medicare is largely welfare based, and those seniors who are on   
   Medicare, which is essentially forced unless one is on a private   
   plan which is considered adequate, and can afford it have what   
   are called supplemental plans, but which are neither cheap nor   
   that unused.  Also, while there is not that much government   
   overhead, there is quite a bit of overhead at the sites of the   
   medical providers.  Furthermore, many physicians will not accept   
   Medicare patients because of government payment policies.   
      
   It is a poorly disguised socialist program; there is no consideration   
   of how much may have been paid in.   
      
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