Co-Opted Competition

I know that it APPEARS that the costs of Medicare are higher - but that is only an optical illusion. Just think of how much higher they could have been if the government watchdogs hadn't put Medicare into service to offset the harm that private insurance companies are doing! After all, costs would probably have been six or ten times higher if the government hadn't given them some competition. And Obamacare will do the same for the rest of us! Without the Medicare competition, MoveOn.org is certain that the costs would have been far greater as the greedy insurance companies (whom everyone knows doesn't have competition between them) would have charged would have ruined us all by now! You should give them credit for their...