Summary
Many of SCHIP's opponents contend the program will lead us to socialized medicine. Horse-hockey. SCHIP targets only the roughly 4 million uninsured kids who already qualify for subsidized coverage but aren't receiving it Socialized medicine has been portrayed as the pinko bogeyman that will devour U.S. health care. Yet, The New Yorker's Hendrik Hertzberg recently pointed out that while Medicare spends just 2 percent of its revenues on administrative costs, private insurance companies spend 15 percent. The U.S. health system is broken, and the primary reason is not government programs.
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Sick Sense
I was a sickly kid. Although a robust toddler-I stayed at home and thus avoided the Petri dish of pre-school-from kindergarten through sixth...
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