If someone really wanted to end Medicare, they wouldn't propose a reform: they would do nothing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There's a need to reform Medicare, but not a need to cut a half trillion dollars out of Medicare.
America as we know it will end unless we end Medicare as we know it.
We shouldn't be undermining Medicare for those who need it most in order to give more tax cuts to those who need them least.
I'd never have guessed that, six years after Medicare introduced a drug benefit, it would still be forbidden to negotiate prices with pharmaceutical companies. Health reform might fix that, but it probably won't.
We're saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who've already retired and organized their lives around this program, you have to reform it for the next generation.
History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work.
And in terms of entitlement reforms, we have to save them from themselves, because if we don't reform social security and we don't reform Medicare, they're going to actually implode.
If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire - and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.
It's not health care reform to dump more money into Medicaid.
President Obama has already ended Medicare as we know it.