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Medicare and Medicines

Before Medicare there was Eldercare. The Eldercare program provided
medical benefits for the elderly if the elderly were in need. It was a
means-tested program which excluded all who could afford private medical
insurance.

The needy were never denied.

It was primarily Democrats, who consistently support big government and
socialist ideas, who gave us Medicare, a program which includes
everyone, including Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, who are the two
richest men in America. It also includes all the top executives of every
Fortune 500 company who are each paid hundreds of thousands of dollars
every year in salary and bonuses, and everyone in middle and upper
economic class America who have or can well afford their own medical
insurance.

The whole purpose of replacing Eldercare with Medicare was not to
improve medical care but to expand the size and power of both government
control and intervention in the lives of the American people.

Now it is primarily the Democrats who want the Federal government to pay
for all prescription drugs of the elderly and not just those of the
needy. It is one more step in creating a program in which the government
will control all medical care in America. The Democrats call that
massive control "universal" healthcare.

The socialists speak of the wonders of nationalized medicine in Canada
and other countries but they never discuss the problems:  That
nationalized medicine has led to a rationing of medical care, of people
waiting their turn for care and often having to wait until the remedy to
their medical condition is no longer effective, or of having to travel
to the United States to receive the care they need.

You will hear Gore and Lieberman extolling the virtues of universal
healthcare, but at no time will you hear either one of them discuss the
problems which will inevitably arise with their proposed "universal"
healthcare. Those of the liberal philosophy will never encourage open
public discussion. They will only speak in slogans, one-liners, and
distorted images with which to scare the elderly into voting for them.

I asked a Canadian friend of mine,
"Is hospital care available to everyone in Canada?"

He replied,
"Yes, it is . . . if there's room."