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How would you like the government to be handling ALL of your medical care/coverage? Pennsylvania has a bill before the legislature now that would create a single-payer government funded health 'care' system (read: socialized medicine). Everyone would be insured. Hooray! But the system will go straight downhill as government sets about 'controlling costs', which means closing facilities and restricting access ... and driving everyone crazy with regulations. And personal income taxes will rise, jobs will be lost as small businesses are driven under (they will face a flat 10% tax; many small businesses don't have a 10% profit margin), and everyone will be poorer and have less medical care.
There's a move in Congress to do this nationally, too. It scares me silly. I come from Canada, where the 'best health care system in the world' now lets people die as they wait in line for months for cancer treatment and coronary bypasses.
Your experience so far with Medicare part 'D' is consistent with government control of health care.
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