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>>>>I wonder how this statistics collected and what means 'overhead' in this case. Anyway, there is rampant abuse going on in Medicaid system, and it's completely gov't business. Would you disagree?
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>>>Have you got the name of an insurance company that is ready, willing and able to undertake Medicaid?
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>>>Medicaid is not the type of "business" that any insurer wants to provide.
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>>The initial statement was different (so cutting it out was not correct). The idea was that gov't controlled business gives less overhead; and in my opinion waste and fraud in already exisitng gov't businesses disprove it.
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>Now that's interesting "logic"!!!
>Applying similarly I could say that I know a white man who is a crook so this proves that all white men are crooks.
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>Except yours is even worse because "Mediciad" is not a business in any way yet you use it to prove that government cannot control business.
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>I think your experience under Communism has given you a warped view of what capitalism is.
It gave me experience to see both worlds, though, obviously, certain ills of 'West' are clearer to me because I saw the final station accomodated by these ills.
Edward Pikman
Independent Consultant