Tennessee Tea Puppet opposes gov't-run programs, says Medicare is "better"

[nichomachus]

7. You don't understand. Medicare isn't a government program.

As a right-wing acquaintance of mine explained to me. The government has hired a private corporation to run Medicare. That's why it works.

Where he gets this from (besides Fox News) is that there is a federal agency, CMS, that coordinates between Medicare and Medicare. Because mail that you get concerning Medicare payments comes from CMS, the wingnuts have decided that this is a private corporation. And that's the lie that's spread by Fox.