“Just as Social Security absolved individuals of the responsibility to save for retirement, Medicare absolved them of the responsibility to save for medical care when they needed it most. And just as Social Security had dragged along Aid to Families with Dependent Children in 1935, the middle class entitlement Medicare dragged along the less popular welfare program Medicaid.

“The government picked up most of the tab for senior citizens’ medical bills (and the medical bills of poor people in the case of Medicaid), and not surprising to anyone who understands the basic rules of economics, those bills kept growing. The state had hoped to make medical care cheaper by granting senior citizens a subsidy. Instead, it had inflated the price and, in effect, given the subsidy to doctors. ‘Hospital prices, which had risen 7 percent in the year before Medicare, jumped by 14 percent in the year after and continued to rise, on the average, 14 percent annually over the next decade’, Allen J. Matusow notes in the Unraveling of America.

“…after Medicare and Medicaid the aged and the poor made more visits to the doctor and received treatment that they might have previously neglected.

“…What’s settled is that medical care became exponentially more expensive, not cheaper, in the aftermath of Medicare and Medicaid. As with so much of the Great Society, results did not match intentions.” (p.280)

“’I have never believed that those who are governed least are governed best,’ reflected Lyndon Johnson after his tenure in office.” (p. 279)

Comment: The ‘Great Society’ had only wetted people’s appetites. The Left and those on the dole could never get enough. They wanted more and more. One of the greatest flaws liberals have is the complete inability to understand human nature and a total disregard for history. With their feet planted firmly in the sky they can only see their utopia in the distance and nothing will suffice until they achieve that. They will never learn that their fantasy will always remain just that, but in dragging humanity towards that delusion, they produce dystopia in the real world. Today, December 2009, they want to usher in another program, perhaps the most devastating ever in our history, socialized medicine. Not satisfied with the damage created by the New Deal, mitigated only by WWII, or the damage unleashed by the ‘Great Society’ programs, assuaged only by the Vietnam War, these Leftist tyrants want to inflict even more devastation with Socialized Medicine. The Founding Fathers would have rebelled against all of this tyranny and suppression of liberty. We may yet have to do the same.

Uh..no. It was lame. And it didn’t make sense.

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Snus

The rise in referrals that the government complains about would stop with tort reforms. As someone said prior, “this will never happen”. Where does that leave us?

I am one of the many seniors who is satisfied with the insurance I have. My insurance provider and Medicade could survive with tort reform.

Name calling is a smoke screen tactic to draw attention away from the scam in progress.