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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
2. Part 2 of my "fuck the oldsters" plan: shift the healthcare subsidy out of late-stage radical intervention for the elderly and into preventative care for citizens with their lives still ahead of them. Repeal Medicare and instead provide G subsidized healthcare for everyone under 18 (or 21 or whatever).
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There's over-spending on medical care at all levels. A better proposal is to make health care spending on employees non-deductible for employers and deductible for employees. Health care costs are sky rocketing because individuals don't actually feel a direct link between their health care consumption and costs. People would shift to lower cost health care plans with higher deductibles, co-pays and other cut backs on care, so they'd have money left over to buy faster cars, better TVs, &c, &c. This would hold back medical spending in the US in a huge way.
