Local newspaper attacks largest and most loyal readership demographic

The Las Vegas Review-Journal, which is a newspaper, has written an editorial basically calling for the abolition of Medicare, the program that provides health insurance coverage to elderly Americans.

This is yet another example of how the newspaper industry continues to commit economic suicide. Without Medicare, an estimated 94.2 percent* of the Review-Journal's readership would be forced to find a private insurance company that is not only willing to sell a comprehensive health coverage policy to a senior citizen, but to sell it at a price that any but the most fabulously wealthy senior citizen could afford. In other words, seniors citizens would have no health insurance at all, they'd die quicker, and who would read the R-J then?

*Estimated age group of R-J readers is based on industry trends and the high concentration of teabagging old farts on the newspaper website's comment threads.

Comments

[atdleft]

No wonder why The R-J's in so much trouble. They're spitting on their own customer base.

[Dan]

Well, considering that Medicare is fat with waste, rations care, full of paper pushing bureaucrats, doesn't pay medical providers proper reinbursement- I just don't see any reason why we should not should not get rid of it and start over. (sarcasm)
But yet, this the system Obama, Reid, Berkley and Titus wants- waste, rationed care, and less than proper payments. What a bunch of morons.

[dave404]

Ah, the R-J way! The 'editor' used an "analysis" by a libertarian group that premised their argument on a faulty estimate to broad brush a thought.

Typical day's work for a tabloid.

Nothing to read there; move on.

But the roadside sign is priceless!

[atdleft]

Dan-

Uh-huh... So that's why Medicare (along with The VA's health care system) has been rated the most efficient health care system in this nation? But oh yes, it would be so much cheaper if we just abolish Medicare and tell low to middle-income seniors to go f*ck themselves and die! After all, why should they be allowed to access the same quality healthcare that government workers have?