Re: [bangla-vision] Alarm sounded on Medicare

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 6:26 PM, liz allen <spktruthtopower@yahoo.com> wrote:

So Social security and medicare are bankrupt.....Obama knows the only way to solve these problems is to enact single payer health care....instead, the corporate democratic whores are standing firm on for profits....to continue stealing our health care dollars....Obama and the demorats need an immediate wake up call...they cannot blame the republicans for the health care system they intend to enact...keeping the Richard Nixon health care plan in place is a disgrace.

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