MEDICARE & MEDICAID
Why do we need over 50 new agencies, committees, working & advisory groups, and more when we ALREADY have MEDICARE (for those 65 and over) and MEDICAID for those too poor to afford it?
Some 'common sense' questions for our elected representatives:
A. Why can't we expand the eligibility for MEDICAID to include those currently uninsured due to financial constraints?
- the bureacracy is already there; nothing NEW needs to be invented
- the overhead costs of establishing a NEW bureacracy would be saved
- while expanding the scope of eligible beneficiaries perhaps the 'savings' that are to pay for this 'healthcare reform' can be found and put to more efficient use.
B. Why do we need to ADD a NEW government bureacracy when we have a large one already?
- it is so complex that every Representative and Senator has staff to help citizens cut through the RED TAPE of government bureacracy - THEY CREATED IT and now THEY WANT TO ADD MORE COMPLEXITY TO THE SITUATION.
- How many more staff will each elected representative need (paid for by the taxpayer, of course) to help people cut through GOVERNMENT RED TAPE?
C. If the goal of healthcare reform is to improve healthcare by reducing administrative overhead, won't all these NEW and ADDITIONAL full time government employees (read: voters) be adminstrative overhead that increases the overall COST of healthcare?
- you can't do anything in government without paying for it - usually at a rate from 50 to 100% more than in private business (example: desk for a government office - $500; same desk for a private business - $200 (we the taxpayer pay the extra $300 'administrative overhead' for the commercial vendor to provide desks to the government)
"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."
-- Justice Louis D. Brandeis
US Supreme Court Judge
Source: Justice Louis D. Brandeis, dissenting,
Olmstead v. United States, 277 US 479 (1928)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Louis.Brandeis.Quote.CDBD
Some 'common sense' questions for our elected representatives:
A. Why can't we expand the eligibility for MEDICAID to include those currently uninsured due to financial constraints?
- the bureacracy is already there; nothing NEW needs to be invented
- the overhead costs of establishing a NEW bureacracy would be saved
- while expanding the scope of eligible beneficiaries perhaps the 'savings' that are to pay for this 'healthcare reform' can be found and put to more efficient use.
B. Why do we need to ADD a NEW government bureacracy when we have a large one already?
- it is so complex that every Representative and Senator has staff to help citizens cut through the RED TAPE of government bureacracy - THEY CREATED IT and now THEY WANT TO ADD MORE COMPLEXITY TO THE SITUATION.
- How many more staff will each elected representative need (paid for by the taxpayer, of course) to help people cut through GOVERNMENT RED TAPE?
C. If the goal of healthcare reform is to improve healthcare by reducing administrative overhead, won't all these NEW and ADDITIONAL full time government employees (read: voters) be adminstrative overhead that increases the overall COST of healthcare?
- you can't do anything in government without paying for it - usually at a rate from 50 to 100% more than in private business (example: desk for a government office - $500; same desk for a private business - $200 (we the taxpayer pay the extra $300 'administrative overhead' for the commercial vendor to provide desks to the government)
"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."
-- Justice Louis D. Brandeis
US Supreme Court Judge
Source: Justice Louis D. Brandeis, dissenting,
Olmstead v. United States, 277 US 479 (1928)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Louis.Brandeis.Quote.CDBD
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