JMJ

The problem with medicare is that with or with out govt reins the subcontraction will always get its money.
Its the ability to make the organizing of benefits that scares me.
ya profitable to the public.
Thats why more and more parents are opting for home schooling

JMJ

“Medicare’s overhead has always had less than 4% overhead, compared to the roughly 30% overhead of private insurance companies.”

You cant compare to private industry, thats just dumb.
and it still reflects more government as medicare is govt. and the private sector is not.

Just alone in the last few months the dems have given nothing but clear indications that government will grow under them, increase the minimum wage, subsidise drug prices, provide universal health insurance , install progressive taxation, huge investments into R&D on energy alternatives, hand out 5000.00 each for college tuitions like lollipops, and then theres all the global warming initiatives that will intrude into our everyday lives.

Not to mention the dems trying to control the market right now by this ridiculous bill they want everyone to sign

As you can see from the graph, as a percentage of GDP, the size of gov’t has remained pretty steady since after WWII, but the size has always risen under GOP presidents and shrunk under Democrats. The “Big Government Democrats” are a myth. It is actually the GOP that has increased the size of government over the years.

Republicans often point out programs, rather than expenditures or revenues, as the prime indicator of size, but actually the big Democratic entitlement programs are actually quite lean on actual size and cost. Medicare’s overhead has always had less than 4% overhead, compared to the roughly 30% overhead of private insurance companies. Social Security’s overhead is less than 1%, while PRAs average 3%. So, while these entitlement may appear to represent “big government,” they are actually quite cost effective and place little to no government control over the beneficiaries. Meanwhile, the GOP’s big spending tends toward large Daddy State instutitions, like the military, police and prisons, private contractors to do gov’t work - and these institutions are all about control.

Private debt collectors for the IRA has completely failed, raking in some 15% in overhead and collecting only about 8% of what’s out there. And it makes perfect sense - these agencies don’t even know what they’re collecting and so have no ability to negotiate or reconcile.

Private military contractors not only have high overhead, but costs that are far higher than regular military costs, with profit margins of up to 50%.

And as we can see from this latest post-GOP state debacle, deregulation almost always costs the taxpayers more in the end.

But, no matter how much proof you cons see, you’ll simply refuse to accept the truth - the GOP is the party of wasteful spending and big, intrusive, and institutionally corrupt government.

JMJ

Thats a line of crap. the dems slogan/MO has always been for more government.
Regulating this and that, socialized health care , get it ?

How does history share an opinion of something that is in process ?
To be as big as it ever was is true, but to say this is as big as it can get and history sides with that is moronic.
It could get bigger tommorow.

Yea, I’ve heard all you guys scare tactics before, the weather, “think of the children”.
If you dont think of the children the same way we do you’re evil.
Like with the CHIPS bill.
The only reason we rejected the latest amendment to it was because there were 28 year olds making 80,000.00 a year on it.
And then Pelosi marchs a bunch of sick kids out on stage.
Nice, real nice..

I lost 10,000.00 in the last 2 weeks, so spare me.

JMJ

Yea, bigger government/2 party state is OK. if its the dems running both ends.
How ridiculously partisan and absurd is that ?

If Pelosis actions today are any example of what Jersey is talking about e might as well slit all our wrists now