WTF is wrong with Democrats that want to cut Social Security and/or Medicare?

[patrice]

177. This is a hard thing to talk about here, because there are those who put their political

objectives ahead of what is good for most of the people. That kind of commentary comes from what calls itself "the Left" and also, of course, from the Right, because it serves both of their purposes: to destroy Obama from "the Left" and to destroy first the Affordable Care Act and then Medicare from the Right. Those two cohorts have synergy on this particular aspect of Medicare so they're both going to scream bloody murder about attempts to separate for-profit treatment modalities from more authentic person based treatments. The difference between those two sets of priorities will make the difference between expanded care or even the survival of Medicare at all. Some of the screamers are those who are rooting to kill Medicare by preventing it from addressing the for-profit motive in the treatment modalities that it currently supports and which, in turn, support some pretty fat salaries riding on top of facilities kept alive by Medicare.

Here's a source on for-profit treatment modalities. Dr. Freeman is the Chair of Family Practice at KU Medical School and an ACTIVE member of Physicians for a National Health Program:

http://medicinesocialjustice.blogspot.com/

Thanks for your support. There's some crazy crap going on on this board; it will add up to hurting a lot of people and there are a bunch more people who don't care about that.