I support using Medicare as a safety net to fill the doughnut hole with a premium payment structure that increases as you can afford more and finally removes you from the rolls when you can afford insurance in any other way. I do not support just making it universal period. Basically a safety net, but not a "government is here to care for you" hammock.
This can get the conversation back to where it needs to be... "Where is this massive cost increase coming from and what regulation must we pass in order to solve it?"
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
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