From the October 2011 issue of Benefits Selling:

The nation's Medicare program may have been the single most-debated program during the recent Congressional talks about our national debt ceiling. Certainly, it was a key cause of stonewalling by legislators on both sides of the Congressional aisle, as neither party wants to be associated with anything which potentially hurts our Medicare beneficiaries. They are, after all, one of the nation's largest voting blocks, and already radio and TV commercials are resounding about protecting the rights of senior citizens to continue their current Medicare program.

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