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Health Care in the US
After starting my graduation project I became very overwhelmed by the amount of information on health care in the United States. I was not sure what aspect of health care to start with. I put it off at first until one night when I turned the news on and saw public health care come up. A bell went off in my head. I decided to limit my focus to public health care. First I picked Medicare. You probably hear a lot about Medicare, right? Although I hear the word a lot, I did not know what it actually was. After doing some research I learned a lot. I learned that Medicare not only covers those who are 65 years and older, along with some disabled. Federal income taxes, payroll tax shared by employers and employees, and individual enrollee premi...

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