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Originally Posted by ratbastid
The government already runs a health care program. It's called Medicare. It's not without problems, but generally speaking it's a damn-sight better than anything you can get privately. Enough so that you can't pry it out of old people's fingers until they're cold and dead.
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I can't tell you how many people in the NORC (naturally occurring retirement community) that I live in who are divesting ALL their monies and assets so that they can jump on the free medicare bandwagon. Transferring hundreds of thousands of dollars.... all so that they can get themselves from free healthcare.
When the medicare doesn't want to pay for the level of healthcare they want to have... oh you should hear them kvetch in the laundry room.
I can't tell you what kind of crap my grandparents go through to get some of that free medicare. My grandmother is in the hospital right now and I can't even begin to tell you the difference in the level of care between someone with medicare versus private insurance.
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