Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Robert Reich's Blog: The Truth Behind the Social Security and Medicare Alarm Bells

 

Medicare is the terrible one, but the problem is not really Medicare; it's quickly rising health-care costs. Look more closely and the real problem isn't even health-care costs; it's a system that pushes up costs by rewarding inefficiency, causing unbelievable waste, pushing over-medication, providing inadequate prevention, over-using emergency rooms because many uninsured people can't afford regular doctor checkups, and spending billions on advertising and marketing seeking to enroll healthy people and avoid sick ones.

Click on the following for the rest of the story:  Robert Reich's Blog

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