“Medicare.
The American people are just not yet ready to deal with entitlements.”
Exactly right. Entitlements are like an addiction. Very few people can break an addiction voluntarily. Medicare will remain as it is until it goes broke on its own. Politicians will be scared stiff after watching NY-26 and Mediscare.
You could well be right. It is possible that reform of these entitlements is simply impossible. They may just have to go broke before we can do anything about them. This loss in NY-26 will certainly cause a lot of conservatives to draw this conclusion.