Good medicine: Medicare does need changes. But its expansion is the key to eventual universal coverage.
American Prospect, The, October, 2004 by Schlesinger, Mark
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ACROSS THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM, ALARM BELLS ARE ringing about Medicare, America's giant health program for the aged and disabled. To conservatives, Medicare is a huge, Kremlin-esque bureaucracy destined to soak up more and more of the American economy. To critics on the left, it's an inadequate
program that nonetheless siphons off increasingly limited funds that could be used to broaden coverage for children and working families.
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