In my country...
...Where is her thinking wrong? This is a beautiful post that lays out exactly what is wrong with the thinking of the political right. The good old days can be talked about as being so perfect, but only while wearing rose colored glasses. Fully 1/3 of seniors lived in poverty before Medicare - this has gone down the memory hole with some many other things. Is this what we as a country want to go back to?
Medicare is needed and must be kept as an important program in our country. Does it have financial issues? Yes, it does. The answer to these issues do not lay in how to reduce the coverage of the Medicare program, but rather in the health care delivery system it seeks to insure against. We first need a single payer system like Canada, and then move to total national health care like the UK. This will be the only way to adequately attempt to control the cost of healthcare.
Take a look at this article, http://www.studentnewsdaily.com/commentary/canadian-health-care-we-so-envy-lies-in-ruins-its-architect-admits/
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