Our Ongoing Medicare Follies

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| Tue Apr. 19, 2011 10:11 PM PDT

Everybody agrees we need to restrain the growth of Medicare. Unless, of course, someone proposes an actual way to restrain the growth of Medicare.

We are ruled by idiots. Bipartisanly, of course.

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