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Originally Posted by IllTestYourGirls
^Because the private sector (those who have insurance/paying cash) have been subsidizing the costs of medicare/aid thus distorting the savings of medicare/aid and helping inflate the price of insurance/cash buys.
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Exactly. That's why you put the entire population into Medicare, and it helps balance things. The average 21 year old only needs to goto the doctor once a year to get stitches after he got too drunk one night, whereas the average 65 year old needs more care than that. They help balance each other out, although obviously, the baby-boomer generation is going into retirement right now which creates an uneven balance, but that's another debate all together.
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