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View Poll Results: Should Medicare be eliminated?
Yes, Medicare should be eliminated. The elderly should provide their own health care. 2 8.33%
Yes, Medicare should be eliminated, but privatized and largely subsidized by the government 2 8.33%
Yes, Medicare should be eliminated, but privatized and barely subsidized by the government. 2 8.33%
No, Medicare should stay as it is now, continue lowering costs, bargaining for drug deals, etc. 10 41.67%
No, Medicare should be expanded, everyone can buy in, single payer health ins. for all. 8 33.33%
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Old 04-04-2011, 05:44 PM
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One could always take responsibility for their health, stop eating ****, stop taking meds and break away from our health care system entirely (except for traumas).

You know, kinda like how the human race used to exist until the last 75 years.

And don't give me that crap about how life expectancy has gone up due to drugs, vaccines, etc.
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Old 04-04-2011, 07:12 PM
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One could always take responsibility for their health, stop eating ****, stop taking meds and break away from our health care system entirely (except for traumas).
Nobody can "break away from the healthcare system entirely", because wellness care and disease prevention are huge and important components which increase with age in the population.

That is, they are in other first-world countries where complete, real healthcare is affordable by the majority of the population. Not the US, of course, where we only put out healthcare fires, and rather inefficiently and expensively, for only some and not all.
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