# Can't find old Medicare omnibus thread

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-find-old-medicare-omnibus-thread/1029575>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 26, 2026, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-find-old-medicare-omnibus-thread/1029575 "2026-04-26T20:47:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2026, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-find-old-medicare-omnibus-thread/1029575/2 "2026-04-26T21:07:52Z")

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This one?

> [@America's Elder Crisis, Medicare Edition](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americas-elder-crisis-medicare-edition/937146):
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> They call, or we call them, an inexhaustible stream of elderly, disabled, and/or poor Americans, all with their stories to tell. Different in the details of course, but in the aggregate a theme develops, a daily oral history of a shattered medical insurance system, not broken because of governmental incompetence but of an insane ideological commitment to “choice” and “competition” and “the market” even in areas where these ideas do not belong. And it has been my experience in the private Medica…

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