Imagine a new vocabulary

[question everything]

where the words: premium, health insurance, co-pay and deductible do not exist.

Where we all pay taxes to support a single payer system. Where we go to the clinic or the hospital when we need to see a health provider, and are given one and never have to think about how to pay for it.

I am thinking about all the seniors who do not want government to touch their Medicare programs, who will see lower Social Security payments because... their Medicare premiums - deducted from their flat Social Security payment - are rising.

Why are Medicare premium rising? I thought that cost of living is flat, which is the reason for the flat Social Security checks?

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1. Single payer is the way to go

but the insurance industry and its shills have scared the idiots--er, conservatives--to death by shouting "socialized medicine"!!!!

The only reason Medicare is in dire straits is because the government keeps dipping into the fund and using it for other things.