Reply #46: Good luck!

[joecool65]

Medicare is always a good point to bring up when talking about "government-run health insurance." Medicare is the most popular government program. Medicare has done more to cut poverty among senior citizens than any other program, public or private. Most seniors could probably not afford private health insurance if Medicare was not in existence. Many of the disrupters at town hall meetings are senior citizens on Medicare, yet they are protesting "government-run health insurance." Should those people really be taken seriously if they are on Medicare, yet cannot understand the irony that they are protesting "government-run health insurance?" Also, if someone is protesting "government-run health insurance" as socialistic, are they going to pay for their own private health insurance if they are of Medicare age or when they become eligible for the program? It's time to call stupid what it is, stupid.
Good luck!