Since the cost of health care is going up so much, how is the government, which has a record of waste, fraud and bad management, going to be able to provide health care at lower costs than private insurance companies?
Force the people who are healthy to have government-sponsored insurance to pay for those who have health problems?
Borrow money from China or print more money to take care of the extra costs? What is a trillion more?
Just don't worry about how to pay for it. Our children and grandchildren can figure that out.
Cut services? Older people don't really get that much benefit from the services because they probably won't live much longer.
Pay the doctors, medical staff and hospitals less? The decrease in the number of people going into this business will cause long wait periods, but that is OK because some of the people waiting for the services will die before their appointments.
Increase taxes? Just don't call it an increase in insurance premiums; that way people won't notice.
All of the above.
Hilda Eakins
Raleigh
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