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<blockquote data-quote="greenbeetle" data-source="post: 1831158" data-attributes="member: 17057"><p>I'm not sure one can "cold turkey" stop medicare and medicaid. There are 1/2 million children in the state of Oklahoma alone who rely on medicaid for insurance. Country wide there are 48 million people who receive medicare. Turning the spigot off suddenly may make financial sense for the government's balance sheet but the cost left to be absorbed by the private sector will mean all of our insurance rates will skyrocket overnight (if the insurance sector doesn't collapse from the weight which it probably would). Also the sudden lapse in care may mean death / suffering for those with chronic or life-threatening conditions. </p><p></p><p>It's a shell game. Changing the payor, shifting money here or there doesn't change the total $ cost we owe for healthcare every year. Someone will pay at the end of the day by one means or another.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greenbeetle, post: 1831158, member: 17057"] I'm not sure one can "cold turkey" stop medicare and medicaid. There are 1/2 million children in the state of Oklahoma alone who rely on medicaid for insurance. Country wide there are 48 million people who receive medicare. Turning the spigot off suddenly may make financial sense for the government's balance sheet but the cost left to be absorbed by the private sector will mean all of our insurance rates will skyrocket overnight (if the insurance sector doesn't collapse from the weight which it probably would). Also the sudden lapse in care may mean death / suffering for those with chronic or life-threatening conditions. It's a shell game. Changing the payor, shifting money here or there doesn't change the total $ cost we owe for healthcare every year. Someone will pay at the end of the day by one means or another. [/QUOTE]
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