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Medicare's 44! Activists Celebrate, Lobby, and Caution

Posted by Colette Washing... on July 30, 2009 - 4:24pm

Medicare turned 44 today, and activists across American turned out to do three things:

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Celebrate the success of this all-American single-payer system...lobby for its extension (via single-payer reform in general and the state-based single-payer amendment specifically) to those Americans who aren’t yet fortunate enough to be 62 years or older...and caution that we’ve had four and a half decades of failed half-measures in healthcare.  Isn't it about time to educate the public and fight for genuine healthcare reform, not start our fight for healthcare reform by agreeing in advance to lock the heartless private insurers into the system forever?

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