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HEALTH CARE: Medicare and the Price of Eggs in Afghanistan

August 21, 2009 - 10:40am

These may be some of our favorite paragraphs yet in all the recent articles we've read about health care reform, taken from a Kevin Sack New York Times piece on how older Floridians are fretting about health reform:

Whatever the feelings about Mr. Obama, there was widespread appreciation that he had taken on an ambitious agenda.

"You have to give the man a chance; he took on a big task," said Sylvia Bank, who said she had just celebrated her 88th birthday, prompting a friend to knock on wood. "If it was my son, I wouldn't let him be president, not at this time."

Hilda Gruber, 84, glanced up from her cards. "What does that have to do with the price of eggs in Afghanistan?" she asked.