Tag: Medicare
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Medicare is pretty awesome
In my last post, I noted that a majority of Americans favor a single-payer health care plan over the current system. Some people though effectively do have socialized medicine already here in the United States: much of the U.S. military, veterans, the poor that can get on Medicaid and 65+ Americans like me, i.e. seniors.…
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Falling through the cracks
She’s hung on for about ten days so far, but likely won’t be alive much longer. Annie is the spouse of Nansi, a same sex couple in the Amish country in Pennsylvania. They live in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, which is not too far from Allentown. If you’ve heard Billy Joel’s song about Allentown, you have a…
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So what’s wrong with democratic socialism?
We are told socialism is bad and un-American, but is capitalism really all that great? Consider how poor a job the free market is doing in providing affordable health care. Before the Affordable Care Act, insurance companies did their best to keep their insured pools as pristine as possible. They had no problems canceling people’s…
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America has lost its soul
I hate what Bush and the Republicans are doing to my country. I feel like I am living in some sort of foreign land that superficially seems to be American but has had its soul sucked out. I live in a meaner and more divided country where the rich get richer and the poor get…
Occam's Razor 