If you could sign up for Medicare right now, would you?

Health care reform legislation in both the House and the Senate offers the option of a government-run insurance plan similar in some ways to Medicare, the program that covers Americans over 65. If you could sign up for Medicare right now, would you?

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Fo sho! Cheaper health care is where it's at. -Mike, Savage, MN

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