In a letter to the editor in the Sunday Boulder Daily Camera, one Dane Cobble demands the right to buy into Medicare. This little snippet captures Dane’s attitude which is, I suspect, typical of most Boulder liberals and progressives…
If our elected representatives are so foolish and/or corrupt to think that anyone wants to be forced to buy junk insurance from a criminal insurance industry (the real death panels), then they need to think again.
I demand the right for any American to buy into Medicare. Single-payer would be even better. A robust public option could theoretically be acceptable. Anything less is an insult to Americans and a giveaway to narrow and destructive insurance company interests.
Earth to Dane, you might want to read this… Shocker: Medicare Has A Higher Claim Denial Rate Than Private Sector Employers
Have at it Dane, you go for it. Also, I suspect the network of doctors accepting Medicare patients is substantially smaller than those available from private insurers. It will only get worse as the number of people on Medicare increases and the reimbursement rates decline. There really does need to be an option for all the liberals and progressives that hate health insurance companies. However, the taxpayers shouldn’t subsidize it.
