On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 19:15:04 -0500, "Mike Hunter" <mikehunt2@lycos/com>
wrote:

>
>"me" <noemail@nothere.com> wrote in message
>news:lm05m4pg2ogf56qsm2i1datfuoslmmllto@4ax.com.. .
>> On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 11:23:27 -0500, "Mike Hunter" <mikehunt2@lycos/com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Any American who believes the government will provide them with better
>>>hearthcare for less money, was never in the US military. If they were,
>>>they cerainly were never in a VA hospital LOL
>>
>> There's a big differnece between the government _providing_ health
>> care and the government serving as the intermediary (i.e. "insurer")
>> between the clients and the providers.
>>
[top post corrected]


>I guess we can assume you are not familiar with Medicare and how it is going
>broke? LOL
>

You still don't get it. Medicare is the government PAYING for health
care. It's funded through a payroll tax. That's different.

Eliminating insurers and having the gov't act as the intermediary is
completely different. In that case, individuals or companies still pay
for health care as they do now, but there's no middleman (insurance
companies) taking a fat slice out of the money on it's way from the
patient to the doctor.

I'm going to make a wild guess that you've never had to pay the full
price of health insurance out of your own pocket or the pocket of your
small business - if you had, you'd know that the current system is a
failure.