You just abolish it. That's how.

Then, retired people will be in the same place as the rest of the folks in this country who can't afford to pay for private insurance. So what? No one who is against the public option seems to care about what those folks do about medical care.

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If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition, and then admit that we just don't want to do it.

- Stephen Colbert.