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To: bentway who wrote (174726)	10/27/2011 1:43:12 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 541430

I actually meant that as a joke i.e. the Tea Party folks say "keep your government hands off my medicare". I know what you mean, yes medicare needs to be reorganized and addressed. But we also must get universal health care. One concept is the idea that maybe medical care should not be a profit making mechanism; and a public option would go a long way to solving a lot of our health care costs. Another, is that if we would build more medical schools there are plenty of qualified kids who would enroll and we would have more doctors and that would lower costs. I am lucky in that I have millions of life long health care. I can get anything and never pay anything. But I asked about getting a colonoscopy and they quoted me $4,000. That is stone cold nuts. That procedeure should only cost a couple of hundred. Even though I would not have to pay for it, I passed on it. In my town doc's take medicare and just write off what medicare won't pay. This idea docs won't take medicare if it pays too low is nuts. Docs love medicare, as they do get paid. I have a state reitirement medical program plus medicare. I only pay $4 for any prescription. Everyone should have what I have. So many of my friends have no medical insurance and I see them skip going to the doctors when they should be going.