Quote:Medicare is one of the worse ran federal programs, I know my wife had it for one of our children and finding a doctor that would accept it for anything other then the basics was near impossible. You had a problem, go to the ER, because no else is going to see you. They'll then refer you to a specialist but good luck finding one to take your coverage.

 

That's not medicare, that's medicaid.

 

They're two totally different things.

 

Medicaid is run by the states and the Republicans have been allowed to make it absolutely terrible.

 

Medicare is run by the federal government and has consumer ratings higher than any private insurance organization.

 

edit: Also, remember 6 years ago when all the tea party morons were out screaming about keeping the government's hands out of their medicare? That's because those morons want to keep their free federally funded government health insurance but didn't even understand that it was federally funded single payer insurance.

 

The republicans would love to turn medicare completely into a government funded private insurance scheme because that would allow them to make trillions of dollars for their cronies, but they don't actually want to do what needs to be done, which is getting rid of the age restriction on the program and fixing the republican added subprogram, Part D, that makes the cost of the program so untenable.

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