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Research Note: Is Medicare “Government”?

July 29th, 2009 · No Comments

A story like this seems to pop up about every decade. From the July 28 Washington Post:

At a recent town-hall meeting in suburban Simpsonville, a man stood up and told Rep. Robert Inglis (R-S.C.) to “keep your government hands off my Medicare.”

“I had to politely explain that, ‘Actually, sir, your health care is being provided by the government,’ ” Inglis recalled. “But he wasn’t having any of it.”

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