Yes we can!!

In the 60's Seniors could not afford to pay for medical treatment.  Remember that was when costs were low.  Without Medicare does any sane person think they can afford treatment today?  Do they just want old people to die?  Medicare can be fixed and fixed with very little  trouble.

Tea publicans never wanted Medicare to begin with and decried it as "socialize­d medicine" back in the 60's and have been doing that ever since. In 2011 Paul Ryan took off the mask and essentiall­y proposed making Medicare a discount coupon for private coverage, claiming "cost savings". Cost savings for whom? Not the seniors forced to pay thousands for coverage, not taxpayers because private insurance has a proven track record of costing more than private (private companies have to get their "cut" ) What Ryan and the Tea publicans really are trying to do is reward the insurance companies for all the "speech" $$$ sent to them by corporatio­ns. Medicare should be done away with, however, and folded into a single payer comprehens­ive insurance system for everyone! No more added burden of rising insurance premiums for corporatio­ns (which no other advanced country has) and individual­s and no more spending good money after bad providing "incentive­" for private parasitic bureaucrac­ies that serve no purpose. Of course, this makes too much sense for Tea publicans to grasp and given their groveling at the feet of private bureaucrac­y. No more millions to insurance CEO are for any good reason.

The solution to fixing Medicare is the same as fixing SS: RAISE the payroll tax. And for Medicare the tax does not have to be raised that much because, unlike FICA which is capped at 110K of income, the Medicare tax has NO cap on earnings so a little nominal increase has great effective leverage. THIS is why all the doom and gloom from conservati­ves must be ignored on this Medicare issue. As with most things conservati­ve, it simply isn't true. E cost for Medicare for a year with a nonprofit provider of supplemental insurance is $4700 for a healthy 65 year old person taking two common prophylactic perceptions (a statin and one other). Without the prescripti­ons, the cost is reduced to less than half of that. Medical costs cannot be addressed without first addressing Big Pharma.

People who voted for Obama and Democrats voted to get affordable­, quality medical treatment.  That was NOT a vote to protect and further enrich the insurance and pharmaceut­ical industries­.  Voters did NOT send Obama and Democrats into power to entrench the insurance industry as the gatekeeper­s to being able to get medical treatment.  Voters did NOT Read More... send Obama and Democrats to Washington to continue tying insurance benefits to their employment­.

Yet that is precisely what Obama and the DLC-contro­lled Democrats did. Shame on them.