And which Medicare-equivalent auto insurance company did you get your claim reimbursement from? Nice try hoodwinking people by comparing apples to oranges. Health insurance is not the problem, health insurers are. They are the ones that drive up the costs for everyone.
Instead of beating up Medicare, why don’t you study the costs driven by the private health insurance sector? While you are at it, why don’t you factor in the losses Medicare faces from fraud by doctors who couldn’t recognize a Hippocratic oath if it danced naked in front of them? Try googling it, $450m if I’m not mistaken – just last week in Florida, many doctors and nurses were charged. Another one a couple of months ago – same amount. Then we mustn’t forget prescription fraud by pharmacies. You cannot go on bleeding something and not have it give up.
Then, ask yourself this: when you are eligible for Medicare a) will it still exist and b) will you be able to afford it? Most importantly, make sure you don’t need it nor any other health insurance or medication, because by the time you guys are done converting public services to private monopolies which hold the people at ransom, no one will be able to afford anything.
Private sector insurance sets prices, they are the reason for the inflation of the associated costs. About the only correct thing you said in your entire article is that by now healthcare costs should have decreased greatly, although you cleverly put a different spin on everything. Medicare is bearing the brunt for greed – both corporate and individual.
Of course, there is always the possibility that you already know the truth and this article is the product of an anti-ACA agenda lurking beneath the lab coat.
