Everybody Knows

Medicare is worse off than Social Security financially, and the solutions to fix it without drastic measures are trickier.
But I'll be fine, thank you, because this 1944 baby plans on living long enough to reap a bonanza.
But one thoughtful conservative boldly discusses the rational — but not correct — alternative.

        Medicare is a popular entitlement, but it’s going to have to face changes one way or another down the road, and some people are going to lose their benefits in the process.  We should be talking about health care vouchers, free markets, and responsibility.  We should be talking about avoiding monopoly in favor of competition.  We should be talking about the moral impetus to cover the uninsured because there is a moral impetus at the heart of this debate, and there is no reason it should be the sole property of the left.

This faux-crusade to “protect” Medicare from the government is just absurd.  “Keep your government hands off my Medicare” was a funny line.  That Republicans have taken it up as a cause is simply farcical.

Trouble is, no one will listen anymore. The R's are screwed.