Posts tagged 'Medicare'

As I noted in a previous posting, our current health care delivery system logs in as a $7,000-per-person-per-year behemoth. And I mean per all 300 million of us. (Do the math: $2.1 trillion divided by 300 mil.) That's why I get a good laugh everytime I read the results of a new survey. The one I came across today from the Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University is full of comments by e...

A group going by the name of Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) has solved the Riddle of the (Health Care) Sphinx, or so it proclaims. The PDA folk claim that, by just extending Medicare to all Americans (thereby jettisoning, one would presume, all other current health care delivery systems), the country could--bugles blaring, drums rolling--create 2,613,495 million new, permanent, good-pa...

If you're been following the ongoing cyber-debates about how to reform health care, you've no doubt run into a lot of wishful thinking, as in, "If the government pays for health care, then it's free." Wrong for all kinds of obvious reasons, most notable of which is that either you or your employer is going to have to pay for your coverage--unless you qualify under a government program because ...