Seniors didn't pay in all their life and are therefore entitled to the unlimited benefits of FREE=MORE Medicare has to offer. What they paid into was a scam, the type of scam that put Madoff in jail for the rest of his life. Here's an explanation of Medicare premiums paid in vs Medicare benefits paid out:
taxes over his lifetime
Without entitlement reform the country is screwed. This debate about Medicare reform is entirely separate from the debate about insurance and access reform for the rest of the country. If we get universal care and insurance reform so the rest of the country is, in essence, given the same deal seniors now get, but we do nothing to change the current trajectory of spending, we only accelerate the bankrupting of our country.
How we can offer FREE=MORE to the entire country and expect a different result is beyond me. It would take a massive political will to do the right thing for Medicare. It is a political will that does not exist in Washington. It will never exist because politicians are not in the business of committing political suicide. Thus is the nature of government, one that governs for itself and not for its people.
