Well, here’s a place where there needs to be some discussion. Just letting the people above 55 do things
the old way, and then all the younger ones pretty much
go into privatization isn’t a good solution.

This competition that everyone believes will lower the price of health care (the invoices that doctor’s bill)
is not going to materialize.

For instance, no one in our state of WI can have an x-ray without one of not-too-many specially certified radiologist hired to look at the film. Several years ago, the guy that did mine charged me $500 for five minutes work. The hourly rate was $6,000 per hour. It isn’t that price now.

My husband’s MRI cost well over $4,000 and the
reading bill for that was $1,000 (for probably 5 minutes work.)

It is state law that requires this charge. It is medical schools that restrict the number of radiologists in the first place.

Economics…supply and demand…this is a gold mine for medical facilities.

I’m thinking that –just as power and light companies
are regulated—the medical industry has to be as well.
Medical industries are somewhat of a monopoly and they shouldn’t be allowed to gouge the American public beyond what they can afford.

Privatizing ANY medical is redundant. Sure the costs
are thrown off the Federal Government’s back…some
onto the state’s back…but privatizing is avoiding the
one cost that’s even worse than the deficit by
telling seniors-to-be that “You’re on your own–Good luck.”

The same goes for this horrible idea of privatizing social security. What a field day for people like
Romney’s old hedge fund company, Bain!

You want to have a class system in America…
well…you just fix the federal money ills with
unregulated privatizing. And if you’re gonna
regulate, then regulate fair and square across the board, none of this exception stuff creating loopholes and (oh)– You know the usual ifs, and, and buts,
for the Senator Frists out there.