If government-financed healthcare doesn't work....

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Cypress

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...why do Bush, Cheney, Condi, and every member of the House and Senate use it? Their government-financed healthcare is about the best in the country.
 
Yeah I think they should have to do with what the rest of us get, unless they are a vet then they can goto the VA.
Maybe if they had to live in our world a little bit....

sort of the ultimate hypocracy for a politician to be against govt financed health care and retirements....
 
uscitizen said:
Yeah I think they should have to do with what the rest of us get, unless they are a vet then they can goto the VA.
Maybe if they had to live in our world a little bit....

sort of the ultimate hypocracy for a politician to be against govt financed health care and retirements....
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The publically-funded federal employee health benefits program (FEHBP) - i.e., what Bush, Cheney, and every federal employee gets - has a sterling reputation, is well run, and cost effective. In short, it totally works.

The entire program (9 million federal employees and federal retirees) , with premiums of more than $15 billion a year, is run by 164 people. Administrative expenses total $22 million a year. * That's astonishing. Totally cost effective and efficient.

If you extrapolate that to 100 million people, it would be a healthcare benefits program that can be adminstratively run by about a thousand people, at an adminstrative cost of under $300 million dollars. LOL. That actually boggles the mind, in terms of efficiency.

I've yet to hear Bush, Senator Lott, or Congressman Boehner complain about FEHBP, or fear monger about any "waiting lists" for healthcare service.

Why not make publically-financed FEHBP open to everyone??





*http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D03E2D91038F934A3575AC0A962958260
 
Cypress said:
The publically-funded federal employee health benefits program (FEHBP) - i.e., what Bush, Cheney, and every federal employee gets - has a sterling reputation, is well run, and cost effective. In short, it totally works.

The entire program (9 million federal employees and federal retirees) , with premiums of more than $15 billion a year, is run by 164 people. Administrative expenses total $22 million a year. * That's astonishing. Totally cost effective and efficient.

If you extrapolate that to 100 million people, it would be a healthcare benefits program that can be adminstratively run by about a thousand people, at an adminstrative cost of under $300 million dollars. LOL. That actually boggles the mind, in terms of efficiency.

I've yet to hear Bush, Senator Lott, or Congressman Boehner complain about FEHBP, or fear monger about any "waiting lists" for healthcare service.

Why not make publically-financed FEHBP open to everyone??





*http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D03E2D91038F934A3575AC0A962958260
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Don't know why Lott would have any authority on the subject, being that he's not the Republican leader in the senate.
 
Cypress said:
The publically-funded federal employee health benefits program (FEHBP) - i.e., what Bush, Cheney, and every federal employee gets - has a sterling reputation, is well run, and cost effective. In short, it totally works.

The entire program (9 million federal employees and federal retirees) , with premiums of more than $15 billion a year, is run by 164 people. Administrative expenses total $22 million a year. * That's astonishing. Totally cost effective and efficient.

If you extrapolate that to 100 million people, it would be a healthcare benefits program that can be adminstratively run by about a thousand people, at an adminstrative cost of under $300 million dollars. LOL. That actually boggles the mind, in terms of efficiency.

I've yet to hear Bush, Senator Lott, or Congressman Boehner complain about FEHBP, or fear monger about any "waiting lists" for healthcare service.

Why not make publically-financed FEHBP open to everyone??





*http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D03E2D91038F934A3575AC0A962958260
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Yeah it boggles the mind that someone could be so stupid to think that extrapolation is legitimate.
 
Shit, half of the dimwits who frequent this board could put together a system that would meet all of our medical needs if greed were subtracted from the equation.

The real world isn't that simple.
 
Cypress said:
...why do Bush, Cheney, Condi, and every member of the House and Senate use it? Their government-financed healthcare is about the best in the country.
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What strawman bullshit....
government-financed healthcare is not even close to universal healthcare as in Hillarycare...

If the government wants pay my premiums for my insurance, thats fine with me...as long as NOTHING else is changed....that certainly doesn't mean they pay my doctors or hospital bill directly....they only pay my insurance bill....

You're not very swift, Cypress..
 
bravo said:
What strawman bullshit....
government-financed healthcare is not even close to universal healthcare as in Hillarycare...

If the government wants pay my premiums for my insurance, thats fine with me...as long as NOTHING else is changed....that certainly doesn't mean they pay my doctors or hospital bill directly....they only pay my insurance bill....

You're not very swift, Cypress..
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Errrrrr...

Bravo, what do you think it is?

It acts AS insurance.
 
i say if the politicians pass national health care they have to by law use it. not some fancier version or any private care.

get in line for 6months bitch.
 
Stupid fucking conservative. Go get a life. No real healthcare system puts anyone who needs healthcare on waiting lists. The French have no waiting lists, and they pay less for their healthcare than we do.
 
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Now I don't have to listen to you you ignorant fool. The founders would spit on your ass if they ever saw you.
 
Chapdog said:
so feel free to move to France. majority of Americans dont want public healthcare.
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Too late.

Whether they "want" it or not, is irrelevant. The fact is that probably the majority of americans who do have comprehensive health benefits, currently ARE already on some sort of publically funded healthcare program - whether it be SCHIP, Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare, VA, or Federal Employee Health Program.... and these publically funded programs are equivalent to, or superior than, the crap HMOs that employees of Walmart or JiffyLube have.
 
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