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Originally Posted by Guest
Medicare only provides hospitalization for the money that was deducted from you for your whole working life. Medicaid is as good as high quality private insurance, but unfortunately run by the government. Like I said, get rid of Medicare. It's crap!
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Once you have qualified for Medicare, you are also eligible to get one of several supplemental plans which provide excellent coverage and little or no cost to the patient.
Medicare on it's own is really only catastrophic coverage, but the supplementals are great.
As far as Bernie and his single payer scheme goes, it won't work. Stating that Medicare has to be saved is a scam in order to make us believe that it needs to be saved in order to get his single payer system in. The fact is that now with President Trump in the White House and both houses of
Congress with Republican majorities, Bernie has become even less significant then he ever was. Any type of socialist scheme that he thinks he is going to get done has even less chance now than it did when the democrats had some power.