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Medicare is the most successful government social program in U.S. history. It not only provides access to care for 45.3 million people older than 65 and 8.8 million disabled people, but by doing so keeps millions of those people out of the crushing poverty that otherwise would result from serious health problems. So the practical question is not whether Medicare should continue, but how. Because the program is tied to health care inflation, its costs have risen faster than the rate of general inflation since the beginning of the program. In 2013, according to the new annual report by Medicare’s trustees, the program spent $583 billion….Read More
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