Free market efficiency? Not.

Submitted by James on Sun, 11/23/2008 - 7:28pm

This'll be a set back for the free-market fringe: Private insurers add cost and complexity to Medicare, but almost no benefit.

Duh.

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Just got the new increase for 2009

Submitted by loftT on Sun, 11/23/2008 - 10:18pm.

On Mom's part B, Blue Cross and Blue Shield. It goes up every year like clockwork and I have yet to see any real benefit to keeping it.

I don't believe in insurance for health care. Insure your car, yes, your boat, of course, your house, absolutely, but are you really going to leave me lying in the gutter with broken bones because I can't pay the blackmail money?

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