>>>and even I thought she was exaggerating when she spoke of death panels...
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>Serious question: if Medicare has a $47T unfunded deficit, will the inevitable eventual failure be overseen by what you call Death Panels deciding whose grandma will be left to die to preserve $ for more deserving cases, or will society run away like bankers so that doctors and nurses end up in Zimbabwe conditions to try to spread scarce dollars while effectively acting as society's executioners, or how will you handle the millions of elderly who fiercely protect their own assets, vote en masse and clearly see nothing wrong with screwing the young to pay for medicare whose current recipients refused to fund it adequately through their own taxes? Make sure to reply in a single sentence of similar length to the above. ;-)


>>how will you handle the millions of elderly who fiercely protect their own assets, vote en masse and clearly see nothing wrong with screwing the young to pay for medicare whose current recipients refused to fund it adequately through their own taxes

I wouldn't dare speak for KG (who could possibly do that as well as he can?) but there are some facts implicit in your question that need adjustment.

First - last year I spent a week in a hospital with pneumonia and medicare was billed $35K for that little visit.
I could have spent a week in the best hotel in Monte Carlo with hot and cold running blondes and spent less than medicare was billed.
To lay the blame for that on the elderly is to blame those who died from it for the bubonic plague.

Second - if you go to an MD's office in the US you'll probably have to wait while the MD talks to a non-stop parade of pharma salespeople (mostly nubile young ladies) who call on the MD non-stop.
Why are those MD's - who could be cranking out some serious billing with that time - spending time talking to them?
Hmm.. I wonder why?
I recently got a prescription for a med and the pharmacy called and told me that medicare wouldn't pay for it because the MD had not prescribed a generic which would have cost hundreds less.
They got the MD to agree to a generic with the exact some active pharma ingredient and the price dropped hundreds of dollars to $9.
Investigations are underway into criminal collusion between MD's and pharmas and it smells bad, John.

So, yes, somebody is screwing the young people but let's get real, John.