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From: "Founding Father" 
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Subject: Re: Single Payer Universal Health Care
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Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 04:28:43 -0700
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"George Conklin"  wrote in message
news:fXLsc.10066$be.9498@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net...
>
> "Proconsul"  wrote in message
> news:M7qsc.21974$PU5.9829@fed1read06...
> >
> > "George Conklin"  wrote in message
> > news:_smsc.8330$be.7922@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> > |
> > |    You are like the Sierra Club claiming that the true cost of
gasoline
> is
> > | $15 a gallon because true costs are not computed.  What you are doing
is
> > | claiming that all government data is a lie, and you and only you know
> the
> > | truth.
> >
> > Others have already answered your claim - but speaking as one who has
> worked
> > with the Federal bureaucracy for more than forty years, I can assert
> > positively that NO Federal program reports it's "costs" as it's "costs".
> You
> > have to review all the ancillary agencies, etc., and add them all
> up....this
> > is not rocket science and it's nothing new. Government data isn't a
"lie",
> > it's government data and you need to learn how to read it and interpret
> it -
> > I'm only one of many thousands of people who know how to do that.
Clearly,
> > you aren't among that number......:)
> >
>
>
>    Take that up with the CBO.  I guess you accuse them of secret
> undertakings too.

You mean the folks who predicted Medicare would cost 1/10th what it actually
does?