http://duncancross.net/2008/11/leadership/ ill. humored. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:02:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://duncancross.net/2008/11/leadership/comment-page-1/#comment-112 Peter Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:08:54 +0000 http://duncancross.net/?p=300#comment-112 I would argue that the institution of Medicare has been largely responsible for the mess we are in by nature of its price fixing and incentivizing medical students to enter specialties versus primary care. If only the country listened to the doctors back in the 1960s instead of retirees, a group of people which wanted to receive benefits from a system even though they knew they didn't have to put a dime into it, we wouldn't have a federal entitlement that absorbs hundreds of billions of dollars and is still bankrupt. I would argue that the institution of Medicare has been largely responsible for the mess we are in by nature of its price fixing and incentivizing medical students to enter specialties versus primary care. If only the country listened to the doctors back in the 1960s instead of retirees, a group of people which wanted to receive benefits from a system even though they knew they didn’t have to put a dime into it, we wouldn’t have a federal entitlement that absorbs hundreds of billions of dollars and is still bankrupt.

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