Because the government took money from them their working lives as payment for this Medicare service they now receive.

And, the fact is that Medicare is a drain on the medical providers and other patients. Because they have government mandated reimbursement levels that are often below the actual cost of the service, that means that other patients and their insurance companies are charged more, to make up the cost. That is why medical providers limit the number of Medicare patients they take on, because they have to pass on those costs onto their other patients.

Medicare has high fraud, waste and corruption, and its cost is exponentially higher than it was expected to be.

It’s not a system worth emulating or expanding.

why don’t you ask if it’s so good, why doesn’t the senators and represenatives want it, other than for us to pay for it?

Exactly

The only reason the Republicans are saying it’s bad is because the medical business has spent $300 million on lobbying in the last six months

That kind of money can buy a lot

I would gladly give up my Medicare to get the private insurance back I had two years ago when I was employed. I have been routinely denied from seeing my cancer specialists by Medicare. They saved my life and I would like to keep it going. I have been paying cash to see these specialists.

oddly you dont pay much attention. They have to give up $500 BILLION from medicare to have the public option. maybe they dont want 35% worse health care.

Dana, earth to dana… 70% of americans want the public option? hahahahaha have you been to the white house lately listening to them?

the fact that liberals ignore that as soon as there is a public option, every employer will drop health care coverage for their employees. ITs the only way to stay competitive then. So like Massachusetts, the program will be 42%over budget and we will all be looking at rationing health care just like the state plan is now.

Oddly th CBO (non partisan, imagine that) says of the claimed 47 million americans that cant get health insurance, 30 million are illegals. Many more are young people who dont think they will get ill so they decide to not buy it. there are only 9 million americans that do not have health care and can not afford it. the real question is why doesnt obama just pay for their health care and save $1.8 trillion dollars?

Because the public option isn’t awful and 70% of Americans want it.

Republicans put up the same argument years back when democrats passed the Medicare bill and the Social Security Act. They fought both tooth nail and called it socialism in the same way they are doing healthcare reform now.