[Bob Ireland]

***As you must be aware, the Medicare premiums that you and other beneficiaries pay -- including my mother -- do not come close to covering the costs of the program***

Would someone please tell Rush to stop misrepresenting the Medicare program?

[Rockingham]

You seem determined to miss the point: the Medicare program is only partly paid for by its beneficiaries, with the taxpayers at large and the entire US economy on the hook for the balance. Rush’s telling of this truth may be too rough for your liking, but he is correct on the facts.