Medicare Is Part of the Solution to Rising Health Care Costs

(By – Mark Miller, time.com)

Medicare turns 50 on Thursday, riding high in the polls but under attack from presidential candidates proposing benefit cuts or even phasing out the U.S. healthcare program for older people. When President Lyndon Johnson signed the law, half of Americans age 65 or older had no health insurance. Today, just 2% go uncovered. Read more…

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