Frist Plans to Attack Medicare

and unveils other totally unworkable plans for the health care system.

All this is is a privatization scheme, one that will, no doubt, benefit the family business when, interestingly, the American public, even the republicans, want a public health care system, overwhelmingly want it.
Frist, like other members of the senate, does not represent the public. He represents himself.

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Frist "wants to apply greater means-testing so that more-affluent seniors pay more for care" and to "tie doctors' compensation to the results they produce for patients." Brownstein adds that Frist also has proposed to "allow private insurers to compete more directly with the government in providing health care to seniors." In addition to Medicare reform, Frist "wants to provide tax credits to help the uninsured buy coverage" and make health insurance more affordable through a "government-backed corporation" that would "assume most of the cost for the most expensive patients," Brownstein writes, adding that Frist also has proposed to reduce restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
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