The Republican idea for killing Medicare is not new

Medicare is a good system. Cost control is what is lacking. When we speak of cost control, right wingers seem to only see cutting at the consumption side. That is, take it out of the sick old people hides. They never think about cost cutting at the supplier side because the supplier is the private insurance companies; their sacred free market cow.

The Republican idea for killing Medicare is not new. They've never been on the people's side, but rather on the corporations’ side. The voucher system proposed by Paul Ryan is a death sentence to Medicare. The vouchers will not keep pace with the rates of inflation or income increases/decreases. As a result, seniors will be left holding the bag, so to speak.

For once in your lives show some compassion towards your fellow seniors, and stop scaring them into submission. Medicare cost control should not be one sided. Sick seniors lack the power to shop, negotiate, and fight insurance companies and medical providers in a market-based environment. That is why Medicare, as well as Social Security, is a social contract between the government and its citizens. But Republicans keep referring to these two programs as "entitlements" when they are fully funded by tax payers through out their working lives.

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