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To: JohnM who wrote (72484)	6/16/2008 11:19:10 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542839

...so many now face of the high levels of premiums relative to low income levels....Medicare for everyone. I don't see how that's affordable. I just started getting statements from Medicare recently and I'm watching carefully. They haven't paid much so far. My secondary insurance is picking up the bulk. Medicare won't cover my shingles vaccination at all. I'm not impressed so far.

To: JohnM who wrote (72484)	6/16/2008 11:27:39 AM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542839

Medicare for everyone. It's a terrific program. The only problem with that is that it and Medicaid threatens to bankrupt the wealthiest country the world has ever seen. A number of people complain that unions are responsible for the automobile companies' woes by demanding such high wages and benefits (well, now some of them say that the companies' managements also bear "some" of the blame, lol), but the health care sector in general is structured on high salaries and high costs throughout the upper half of the system (I'm excluding people like nurses, aides, and the "usual suspects" at the bottom of the pecking order). Medicaid and Medicare are part of a system that is irrational in how it allocates costs and evaluates benefits.