even though he wasnt convicted , the house did their job and impeached him.

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76. The idea of medicare being killed under its own weight is absurd

It is also something right out of a Cato or Heritage position paper.

The fact of the matter is that the holes in medicare are primarily caused by corruption via the free market-pirate medical insurance system that has grown up and our refusal to regulate it.

When medications rates and prices are negotiated using medicare as a unit there are suddenly strange shortages, but never fear, the Bushites managed to create the Part D hunka-hunka burnin' corporate wealthfare for the insurance industry.

The fact that that and the inability to properly prosecute medicare fraud carried out by insurance groups and shifty medical device DME's speaks more to the love of insurance and less to our love of medicare.

The fixes to medicare are not austerity or cutting into benefits. That is idiotic as the benefits are already reduced in value thanks to price fixing, corruption, and corporate malefactors. The solution is to scrap part D completely and reboot it from scratch and to police and assure insurance companies and medication manufacturers to set prices at reasonable rates.

The real solutions are things that you don't hear out any democrat to the right of Al Franken.