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anciano

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9. Although I am in favor of a single payer universal system,
Wed Nov 22, 2023, 01:58 PM
Nov 2023

the reality is that here in the US the insurance industry is making billions of dollars each year from our current system and I am not naive enough to believe that they are going to give that up. And with the increasing enrollment in Advantage plans, they will very soon be the dominate controlling factor of the Medicare program. So it seems that any major reforms for the protection and benefit of participants are at this point no more than wishful thinking. Sad indeed, but reality. It's always about the money.

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