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To: koan who wrote (124821)	11/17/2016 1:18:05 PM
From: bart13	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217545

I never understood why the right wing folks were against a single payer system like medicare for all. Simple, you're categorically 100% unwilling and unable too, because you're totally locked into a failed ideology that only wants it their way and can't accept any alternatives, regardless of their continual failures.

To: koan who wrote (124821)	11/17/2016 10:32:11 PM
From: RJA_	1 Recommendation Recommended By bart13 Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217545

>>>I have medicare and love it. All my friends love it. Yes, I too have Medicare, and it is truly great, especially when paired with a reasonable supplement. I read on Trump's website under health care that he plans to "modernize" Medicare. This may be a code word for killing it in order to save it. What this would kill is any attempt by him to get a 2nd term. However, he may be one and out, and that may be the plan. I expect, if this is attempted, it will be packed into a reform of the ACA which is largely hated by those not situated to get a large subsidy (most IMHO). The dramatic difference between Medicare and the ACA in terms of costs and benefits are almost like they were passed by two different parties... rather than both by Dems. These Dems are not the FDR Dems or the Ted Kennedy Dems... the Obama dems are something else. The pandering to different racial, ethnic and sexual subgroups, feminists, and gays, the open borders, the voting without ID or citizenship, the selling of high office for donations to the Clinton Foundation or bribes disguised as speaking fees... all in terms of scale are new... Trump may in fact be a con man, pretending to protect Soc Sec and Medicare in order to limit or kill them... however he could not have succeeded without the Dems forgetting their working class base. After NAFTA and the giant sucking sound predicted by Ross Perot... the Dems answer was "retraining". Generally retraining is not going to convert middle aged assembly line workers to high tech programmers. So, you get "retrained" people, who still cannot find work that pays as nearly well or as steady as that killed by NAFTA. I suspect that for you Medicare folks, it might be wise to get anything medically necessary done now, rather than waiting for later, if that is an option.