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Medicare Primer for Universal Healthcare Comparisons

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Christopher Wright

X-Rays                          $267         $98.95              $143.32

Other X-Rays                 $318         $227.34             $90.66 

Now, in a cost cutting measure that is sure to help the system, Medicare is scheduled to cut the payments to physicians by 10% in 2008

And so it continues, there is still no such thing as a free lunch. Universal healthcare, single-payer system will save the country considerable money and considerable pain and misery - but it has to be done right. Closely check the specifics of any plan of a candidate you expect to vote for. It it is like this, everybody loses except the insurance companies.

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