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Originally Posted by goofball
How would you rectify that?
You could completely get the government out and let the market handle it. You'd have to ween people off their dependency though.
You could provide universal health care.
I don't know what I think is best necessarily. That argument will never be won either.
Basically I'm critical of Medicare as unfair and inconsistent. Its one of those things where people don't think about where the government gets its money or how unfair things really are if you break them down on a logical level or look at the big picture. In effect our government has a policy of:
"Someone old is sick lets pay for this no matter what the cost"
"Someone young is sick **** them they're on their own."
Obviously this wasn't the rationale but its what happened and to add to the irony the reason was in fact because the old are so expensive to insure.