Medicare Meets Mephistopheles

This relatively short book is in the form of a long memo from an underling demon to Satan, complementing him on the great success of his plan to use Medicare to destroy the American Republic. After giving a brief history of Medicare, he examines the program from the perspective of how it works with the seven deadly sins and how it undermines American virtue. The presentation is in the superficial form of satire. It is not satire. It is dead serious. And it is very effective. Not only does it present a great deal of material quickly an effectively, but, by putting it into a moral context, it really cuts to the heart of why huge government programs such as Medicare are so bad for the country. An accomplished performance by an unaplogetic conservative. Easy to read and well worth reading.

This book is really a satire against Medicare. It is written from the perspective of one of the Devil's executives. This executive writes a memo (essentially the whole book) to his boss (The Devil) about how well Medicare is working out in their malevolent plan. I considered it very entertaining reading.

Professor David Hyman has used the seven deadly sins to serve up an easy to read description of the Medicare mess. His satirical approach is both amusing and on target. I think this small volume is required reading for both the layman and the expert. The book supplies a historical perspective, and provides a useful focus on the Medicare problem areas. I think this focus and fact driven perspective is essential, if the nation is to make any progress confounding Mephistopheles.

No ordinary survey, MEDICARE MEETS MEPHISTOPHELES takes the form of allegory, and is written as a memorandum from an underling demon to the devil himself. Devilish details demonstrate Medicare's pitfalls and the foundations that only undermine honesty and encourage greed and profiteering. In using satire as a vehicle for analysis, Hyman provides a biting analysis easy to digest. Diane C. Donovan California Bookwatch