“The ladies are saying that they don’t want socialized medicine. So I say to them, ‘You’re on Medicare, right? And you have no complaints, right? Well, maybe a few. And they say to me, ‘We like what we have and we don’t want him to take it away from us.’ It was my 101 year-old mother calling from Forest Trace, the Florida retirement community where she lives, “And so I say back to them, ‘Well, the joke’s on you—you already have socialized medicine! That’s what Medicare is. Socialized medicine. And by the way,’ I add, ‘President Obama--is not calling for socialized medicine. He wants to do things to save the system we have. Which is bankrupting the country. Largely because of us.’ They look at me like I’m crazy. Some of the girls are not all there, if you know what I mean. ‘I say us because all we do is go from doctor to doctor with trips to the emergency room and the MRI machine thrown in. All of this costs money. A lot of it. In the past,’ I say, ‘all of us would be dead already. How much did it cost young people who are paying taxes to get me to be 101?’
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