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Edited on Sat Aug-22-09 12:28 PM by TomCADem
Or, are you making a Spinal Tap type argument that while conservatism only goes to ten now, it went to 11 back then? The whole point of my original post was that it is mistake to assume that Medicare sprang into existence in just President Johnson's first year after he was elected. Indeed, to a certain extent, it represented a compromise from President Truman's far more ambitious goals of universal healthcare coverage, and it still took five years. By comparison, President Obama is still aiming for passage before the end of the year! Assuming that Medicare was slapped together in 1965 is false assumption, and such an assumption forms an inappropriate yardstick.
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