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Old 02-01-2010, 03:50 PM   #7969
JPhillips
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Originally Posted by Coffee Warlord View Post
Medicare is indeed a much bigger fiasco to deal with than SS.

In theory, I think the private sector could come up with a way to be profitable on insuring the elderly if it had to fill a void. It'd almost certainly require hospital costs in general to come down to non-bullshit levels, but it's theoretically doable.

I don't mean to be bitchy here, but there's a pretty big gap between theory and practice there.
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