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Medicare is government health care

I am surprised that the 84-year-old letter writer who needs the aortic valve replacement wants to keep government out of health care.

Unless he opted out of Medicare, a government program is going to pay for the majority of his procedure.

James Foley

Bluffton

This story was originally published July 26, 2017 at 5:17 PM with the headline "Medicare is government health care."

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