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I can tell you first hand Medicare leaves huge gaps in coverage. Welfare access card covers everything with no copays while Wendy who is disabled has copays on almost everything. It gets very expensive when she has to see 5 specialists and she does all the time. There is no dental coverage here either. Medicare does cover dental where it's been mandated but that isn't where we live. Her neds cost money too unlike access. I think thats backwards, most welfare people are capable of working while most disabled are not yet the people capable of working get a free ride. Wendys disability is based on the money she made when working and she worked hard and made decent money. I can also tell you they don't hand disability to you, it's a difficult process and you have to fight for it. The welfare cases should have the copays while the disabled shouldn't. I think in practice national health care is a bad idea. I would love to have coverage and be able to go to any doctor for free but that isn't how it works, nothing is free. On top of that if healthcare seems free you will have hypocoindriacts (sp?) going and tieing up resources that a truly sick person may need. I think the gov't has invaded our private lives too much as it is. Gov't run health care will bring about people who can't get care they need because some stuffed shirt decided it wasn't needed while at the same time someone will be getting care they don't really need. I have already seen it in the Medicare and comp systems. Or by the time help is approved the damage will have been done and care comes too late, seen that one too. Bad idea no matter how you slice it, like I said before it only looks good on paper, just like communisum looks good on paper but no one would want to live that way in practice.