Question: Privatizing Medicare

[davester]

The entire concept is absurd. Health savings plans are useless when something catastrophic like a car accident, cancer or heart attack occur. The costs of medical care in those instances can be vastly greater than any amount a mere mortal could stash away in a health savings plan. An insurance pool is what is needed, and it has been proven that private industry (especially for-profit private industry) is far more costly in providing health care insurance coverage than even the most inefficient government programs around. This is nothing other than a money grab attempt by the moneyed interests.

The moneyed interests (i.e. republican fatcats) are always trying to steal the public treasurey.