Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   Being UK citizens they know reality Date:   10/31/2019 10:25:58 AM

I'm glad you asked about Medicare as my Mom is on it as are many others.  If you can't afford gap insurance Medicare sucks.  And even with it you have a harder time finding a doctor that will take new Medicare patients and the best and brightest don't have to because they have enough patients with private insurance.  Considering Medicare costs over $700B (of which $50B is wasted) and takes up 15% of the national budget to cover 20% of the population it is no wonder the cost of Medicare for all will cost trillions.  So no, Medicare is not great insurance but it is an entitlement so there's no use fighting that reality.  But that's why we fight against Medicare for all.  And let me remind you that the single largest employer in the UK is the National Health Service.  Give that some thought.

And yes, the horror stories in the UK and Canada are legend.  And those with the money and don't want to wait a year for a hip replacement, a stent or cancer treatment fly to the U.S. and are on a table in less than a week.  So Archie, the rich in those countries aren't suffering because they can afford to come here and get the best care very quickly.  But as we already know, socialism does in fact create equality.....it's just equal misery for those pigs that are less equal than other pigs.