Karl Rove Claims Private Insurers Are More Efficient Than Medicare In Debate With Dean

kpete

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Karl Rove Claims Private Insurers Are More Efficient Than Medicare In Debate With Dean

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Skink

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Sat Sep-12-09 08:45 AM
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1. Rove's got a point but after 8 years of W who is guarding medicare.

Edited on Sat Sep-12-09 08:45 AM by Skink

Heck of a job repubs.

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JDPriestly

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Sat Sep-12-09 09:57 AM
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6. No, Rove does not have a point. The European plans are far, far cheaper

than our private insurance. They have neither the fraud nor the executive salaries and other overhead costs, and they cover pretty much everything. That is why nearly all medical outcome statistics including life expectancy are better in Europe. I lived there for quite a few years. I loved the European plans (lived in four countries while my husband taught English and other languages).

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sharp_stick

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Sat Sep-12-09 08:53 AM
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2. He's absolutely right

I'm sure nobody could beat a private insurance company at denying claims and rescinding coverage when a big ass bonus is on the line. When it comes to actually providing care though I notice he doesn't bother to claim that the private insurance companies are worth a baggie of dog shit.

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theoldman

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Sat Sep-12-09 09:09 AM
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3. Rove may be right but he is overlooking a big point.

If they are more efficient, they should be cheaper and private insurers are not cheaper. I hope that Dean pointed that out.

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liberalmike27

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Sat Sep-12-09 10:18 AM
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7. There is No Doubt in My Mind

That Rove is full of shit.

Why do you think Bush nicked him "Turd-Blossom?"

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WhoIsNumberNone

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Sun Sep-13-09 08:31 PM
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11. 'Efficiency' in for-profit insurance is all smoke and mirrors.

When an insurance company saves money, it doesn't pass the savings along to the consumer- it merely means more profits and possibly a higher dividend to the stockholders or bigger bonus to executives.

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Pharaoh

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Sat Sep-12-09 09:11 AM
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4. Look

the private insurance companies dump everyone into medicare at 65. Just when things start getting really expensive they dump them on the taxpayers.

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theoldman

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Sat Sep-12-09 09:15 AM
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5. Exactly, the older you get the more expensive it gets.

Those last few years cost more than the total for the previous years of your life.

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earcandle

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Sat Sep-12-09 10:37 AM
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8. Of all insurance carriers Medicare Auditors are the most

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scrupulous about finding fraud. 

Rove is an idiot speaking for the biggest frauds of all.

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TheEuclideanOne

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Sat Sep-12-09 01:17 PM
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9. Does somebody have a URL pointing to the whole debate?

Where/where was this debate?

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zeos3

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Sun Sep-13-09 01:48 AM
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10. Um...

Wouldn't it be the private for-profit health care industry that's defrauding Medicare?? Is that what he means by efficiency??

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCES LARGEST HEALTH CARE FRAUD SETTLEMENT IN ITS HISTORY

Pfizer To Pay $2.3 Billion For Fraudulent Marketing

http://www.stopmedicarefraud.gov/

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