Political/Cultural Chit-Chat

[LA Ute]

I really question your 70% figure. I have some health issues that allow me to be on medicare. I like medicare. My wife retired. We pay about $1,200 per month for the same coverage she had as a nurse at Primary Children's. That is about $700 per month more then she paid while working. She paid about $250 per paycheck for her coverage. We would much rather have the coverage for her that I have under medicare. This was true even when she was still employed.

I was going off the top of my head and was only partly right:

In the News: Americans' Satisfaction With Their Healthcare

https://news.gallup.com/poll/226607/...ealthcare.aspx

Looks like people are happy with the healthcare they receive but not as many are happy with the cost of the care. If the Republicans wanted to be creative about this they could make some headway. The Democrats will probably address this issue only with additional entitlements or expanded Medicaid, or something like that. That might work for them.