[Boomer]

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

You forget that government run healthcare is at 34% overhead. Private insurers do it for 12%, and still make a profit. This leaves a lot more dollars to be spent on YOUR health, rather than bureaucrats, gov't waste, and Las Vegas parties.

I have tried really hard to stay away from this thread. (Maybe I will delete this one before it posts, just like I deleted the one I wrote yesterday. Will see.).........

Anyway, golfing eagles, I must respectfully ask if you would mind citing your source for that "34% overhead" statement.

I also wonder why nobody ever mentions the fact that stockholders are in line to be paid out of that profit -- either behind or in front of, or right alongside those bloated CEOs.

And before somebody comes in here and calls me a commie pinko profit-hater or whatever, I will play a little offense and say that I am perfectly comfortable with the market......Gimme soap and toothpaste and maybe a little telecom on the side, but owning a piece of somebody's health needs just does not seem right to me.

I was at contract tables during the time when health insurance began to morph into the mess it is now. I can remember when we got those prescription cards. Ah, yes, there was great happiness in the land, no more saving receipts for rembursement, no more recordkeeping, just go forth clutching that convenient card. Never looking at what was happening to prescription prices. Never even thinking about looking at anything but the co-pay. That prescription card was a Trojan Horse. We rolled that Trojan Horse right in and fell asleep.

I predict this TV demand of Their-Way-or-the-Highway insurance for Medicare coverage will eventually affect not only patients but doctors as they have to put up with more and more intrusion into their decisions.

For those who are happy with their decision to go with this specific advantage plan, I sincerely respect that and wish you the best. The problem I have with this situation is the morphing. There are lots of retired military in TV and others who have worked many years to receive good retiree benefits and those who want the wider coverage of primary Medicare with a Plan F supplement who now are being booted out if their choice is not to accept a narrowly dictated HMO. Many who have been happy with their docs and with their insurance must feel like they have just had the rug pulled out from under them. It just does not seem right to me.......

wow....I do digress.....I could say more.......will I hit submit....oh whatthehell.......

Norma Rae Boomer

PS: I really do want to know the source of that 34% number. I am not being cantankerous. I like cited sources for comments I find interesting. I can listen and then think about stuff.......