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To: zencycler

They fixed Medicare? That will come as a huge surprise to all the doctors who are getting ten cents on the dollar for the care they provide Medicare patients, to the hospitals that are going under because they can't get enough back from Medicare to cover their own costs to care for elderly patients, and to the patients who are having trouble getting physicians who accept Medicare alone.


20 posted on 10/10/2004 6:33:44 AM PDT by Capriole
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To: Capriole

Silly! That WAS the fix!

On the road to National Healthcare, first you have to make doctors unwilling to accept Medicare. Then you can pass laws to control the practice of medicine and call it *providing* for the seniors. Then you extend it to everyone.

Incrementalism at work.


21 posted on 10/10/2004 6:39:30 AM PDT by reformedliberal
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