[Conservative Coulter Fan]

It is not the wrong issue. It is a fundamental question about where conservatives out to stand on the issue that will become the entire theme Obama and the Democrats hope to ride on all the way to 2012.

And Medicare is the largest of the entitlement program problems and I'll quote Robert Fischer, the CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas: " Medicare Part A, which covers hospital stays; Medicare B, which covers doctor visits; and Medicare D, the drug benefit that went into effect just 29 months ago. The infinite-horizon present discounted value of the unfunded liability for Medicare A is $34.4 trillion. The unfunded liability of Medicare B is an additional $34 trillion. The shortfall for Medicare D adds another $17.2 trillion. The total? If you wanted to cover the unfunded liability of all three programs today, you would be stuck with an $85.6 trillion bill. That is more than six times as large as the bill for Social Security. It is more than six times the annual output of the entire U.S. economy."

[screaminsunshine]

We will have Triage Medical Care. For those who are not Party Members. Party Members will get the best of the best. The higher in the Party you are the better care you will receive.

[45Auto]

The numbers are staggering; the whole thing is going to collapse because the money is not there. I think the Rats want to roll Medicare into ObamaCare, thereby doing away with the former. Some Repubos (but not all) see the crash coming and want to “reform” the entitlements. I think it's too late. If we could get government (and its allies in the health insurance industry) the heck out of it we might stand a chance of still having some level of medicine in this country. I'm old enough to remember when doctors made house calls and my parents paid for their services in cash.