The TRUTH about Medicare!

[newsish]

Run time: 10:07 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_jnDm6HNnw   Posted on YouTube: September 02, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: September 02, 2009 By DU Member: newsish Views on DU: 699

 
Get ready to have some truth shoved down your fact hole - Medicare is broken, big government doesn't work.

New Majority Article:
http://www.newmajority.com/instead-of...

Admin Cost Study:
http://www.heritage.org/research/heal...
(a very widely-cited study with lots of fun facts that seemingly contradict the people who cite it...but only seemingly)

Overall Cost Growth:
http://www.kff.org/insurance/7031/ti2...

Medicare Bankrupycy Report:
http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TRSUM/index.html

Washington Post Cites Tort Reform Numbers:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/...
(I cannot find the original study, only citations - mostly discrediting it - maybe they took it down out of shame)

Just for Fun:
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/bl...
(I didn't mention this in the video, but just for fun, read this and see how many blatant contradictions, misstatements, and misrepresentations you can find in this piece by David Frum)

[dbmk]

1. Love your videos

Not sure that the people it should inform are able to cut through the sarcasm, though. :)

[stlsaxman]

2. I'm very glad you posted this reply... i may not have gotten the deeply buried sarcasm

this early in the morning.

:hangover:

Kick and recommended!

[newsish]

3. Very true

Some people are beyond hope, so why not just make videos for the rest of us?