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Gray Matters: Don't fear health care reform

Ellen Geiger, 56, who opposes health care reform,

Photo credit: AP Photo | Ellen Geiger, 56, who opposes health care reform, yells as she listens to panelists during a health care town hall meeting in Alhambra, Calif, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2009.

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The good news for older Americans out of the health care tumult is President Barack Obama's pledge that there will be no cuts in Medicare benefits. Indeed, indications are that Medicare will survive stronger if and when the proposed new health care program becomes law.

That's one reason the American Medical Association changed its position and endorsed the bill (HR 3200, "America's Affordable...

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