I'm not sure where I said that we don't need to rein it the health care costs. We certainly do. And the first step in my mind is we need to limit private insurance bureaucracy which is much more ineffective than governments. Personally, I prefer single-payer system and having system that bets on people lives is immoral and wrong.

My point was that we need to fix rising health care costs, instead of cutting Medicare and Medicaid. If we do this, then Medicare and Medicaid will be fixed automatically.



With the state of the current GOP I'm not sure you are right. Look around you! They want "their" country back! Do you follow how they are doing it in the states? For example, Mississippi, 46% plurality of registered Republican voters said they thought interracial marriage was not just wrong, but that it should be illegal. WI, MI, OH - all try to end rights for collective bargain agreements. Almost all southern states try to eliminate women right to choose about their own health care. And list go on. Am convinced that if they start on reining Medicare and Medicaid it will be translated to "stop giving health insurance to children" and good working conditions definitely will go down the drain.