So any deal reached now would in practice be nothing more than a deal to slash Social Security and Medicare with no lasting improvement in the deficit.

所以，实际上现在能达成的协议都只能是一份大幅削减“社会保障”和“老年医保”的协议，不会对赤字有任何持续改善作用。

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Because there’s no doctor out there who doesn’t see Medicare as the $800 gorilla.

因为那里没有医生，而医生是不明白医保如同800美元一个的打手一样。

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It is no surprise that spending on drugs by the elderly were not part of Medicare at the beginning since drugs were a minor part of their total medical spending in 1965.

最初的1965年，药物花销在整个医疗花销中仅占微小的部分，因此在老年人群的医保构成中并不含有药物花销是毫不奇怪的。

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For poor countries, there is no Medicare-like program to fund.

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In the 2008 HSC national survey, more than 20 percent of primary care doctors accepted no new Medicare patients (only 4.5 percent accepted no new privately insured patients) and about 40 percent of primary care doctors and 20 percent of specialists refused most new Medicare patients.

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It isn't possible to take Social Security and say no to Medicare.

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