my post was a general comment in the spirit of the thread....from my view.

The new health care does not provide for ANY actions to reduce the cost of health care. As a matter of fact it includes an assumption that there will be $500,000,000 of savings from reduced waste in Medicare. Every single attempt by the current administration to offset costs have either failed or as per usual in politics, not materialized. The last effort was side lined by a super duper committee that totally failed to meet their task of reducing spending.

Therefore we know with absolute certainty there will be no $500,000,000 savings from Medicare reduced spending.

And those of us who are realists know the real work of reducing spending by the politicians will come about via reduced services. We also know that a good number of us who want to retain parity of health care coverage will take out additional coverages will will be made available.

The fraud in Medicare and the distorted profits in pharmaceuticals will continue.

Enjoy the health care coverage you have now at the cost that you have now as long as it lasts because it is currently the best coverage at the lowest cost (to individuals) that we will see in our foreseeable future.

This was all known and discussed when the Obamascare health plan was being ram rodded through the approval process. Remember when Nancy Pelosi solicited...let's get this bill passed so we can see what is in it. Does anybody think anyone in congress has done so since passage.

This subject will be kept as muted as possible by the democrats in the coming campaign.

Nothing new here what so ever.

btk