A Creative Idea for Health Care

I just heard about a compromise to the health care debate being worked out at the urging of conservative Republicans in both the Senate and the House. When people show up at a town hall meeting sponsored by a senator or a Congressman (of either party), they will be given a card. If they check the box indicating their opposition to socialized medicine, they will then be asked to provide their social security number. The cards will be sent to the government, and they will be permanently excluded from the Medicare system, because it is, after all, socialized medicine. If they're already on it, they will be terminated from the system. If they're not yet on it, they will be permanently ineligible.

The way it will be administered fairly is that all moneys that a person has paid into Medicare will be refunded to them (unless they are very elderly and they have received more in benefits than they have paid in), so they can then use the money to try to find equivalent insurance or whatever insurance they want. But they will be free of the problem of socialized medicine forever.