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Old 03-04-2009, 11:43 PM   #489
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Originally Posted by JPhillips View Post
In the Medicare prescription bill was a provision to offer private coverage under some circumstances. That private coverage turned out to be no better, but far costlier than Medicare. Obama wants to kill the private coverage option which will save a lot of mone.

So he's just cutting out the private coverage of Medicare/Medicaid, which will make it a single-payer, government-run program? I wasn't sure if he was cutting payments to doctors and hospitals.
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