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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (8422)	11/4/1999 1:30:00 AM
From: truedog	Respond to of 769669

to: Lizzie Tudor from: truedog LT, the needy elderly that I know (and at my age that is many), would have no objection to means testing. There are already some policies that take into account the earnings of the elderly, to adjust federal participation in the cost of health care. I, honestly, do not know what they are yet but, I will, most certainly, soon find out. Please just remember one thing, medicare is an off-shoot of social security that was envisioned by the most leftist liberal of them all, Eleanor Roosevelt. Citizens were not given a choice of not participating in the program. They were forced to relinquish a portion of their paychecks to the program, when they could have done much better for their retirement by investing the same amount of money individually. Of course, if they had been allowed to not participate, they could not qualify for benefits later, and they probably wouldn't have needed to. Government bureacracy eats up to large a portion of the dollars collected from the paychecks, not to mention the fact that, employers must match the amount deducted. Medicaid and numerous county and city programs provide help for children and other needy citizens, who, from my association with the Harris County Hospital District, causes these citizens, other that the elderly, to pay far less of a co-payment than those on medicare do. TD