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Gray Matters: An 'un-American' Medicare recipient

Quick ReadFor health care, I participate in a dreaded "public option," Medicare, and have done so for 15 years. How un-American is that?

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Photo credit: Getty Images, 2005 | With few exceptions, Medicare has provided health care for millions.

Saul Friedman

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I must be un-American, and I may have placed my country in great peril from socialists, communists, fascists and I don't know who else.

For health care, I participate in a dreaded "public option," Medicare, and have done so for 15 years. Along with most of 45 million people, we have been dependent on and spoiled by Medicare.

And most of us like it better than private insurance and, at...

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