Cutting Medicare

Mind you, it's NOT that I love Medicare. It's the stripping of the system and turning it into welfare that bugs me. Follow this link:

The health care bill soon to pass the Senate hasn't changed anything but the packaging. Cuts to Medicare are still a reality, but a bureaucratic Medicare Commission willindiscriminately make these cuts, and, we're told, not on the basis of age [i]. In practice, it makes no difference, since those benefiting from Medicare are seniors. Charged with deciding how to apply $500 billion in cuts to primary Medicare services, the Medicare Commission will most surely make decisions that result in rationed care for seniors. It's not conspiracy; it's simple arithmetic. Less money equals less care.