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Originally Posted by cdynaco

While I will stay out of the pro/anti O debate, anyone who thinks they receive a positive return on their FICA tax is clueless about the time value of money and the cancer of inflation. You could put that 6% withholding in your mattress and come out ahead compared to SS.
And anyone who thinks government run anything is more efficient than private industry (with true competition) is ignoring the huge haircut and inefficiency inherent in bureaucracies.
Administrative Agencies (Fed, State, County, City) are crippling our country - not only because of their enormous expense, but also the totalitarian nature of their methods that deprive citizens of due process and other Constitutional rights. Thanx for nothing FDR.

Horsefeathers.
What about Halliburton/Blackwater?
We are using mercenaries now, paying them a hell of a lot more than servicemen, they are not bound by any rules, and are bilking us for billions.

Our government isn't perfect, but I'd take a government agency any day over the health insurance companies that are committing fraud and doing anything to avoid paying claims.

True, recent Story. My daughter's husband was sitting home, said, "I don't feel good". Then, he passed out cold. My daughter called 911, they took him to hospital and ran tests - nothing found (that's another story - they just let him go without a clue why - what if he was driving?) - then came dealing with insurance. He got a call that they were refusing to pay for the tests, because he hadn't called ahead and told them - He was unconscious! Then, they would only pay a fraction of the ambulance - why? "That ambulance company is not in network".
Yes there is some abuse of Medicare/Medicaid, but with private insurance companies, the abuse is on the one who gets sick! I read that Medicare's overhead is something like 10% of what it is for private insurance companies - healthcare for profit means healthcare suffers at the expense of profit.