Tom Coburn Says He Has Plan To Save Medicare

[Teatownclown]

http://www.newson6.com/story/16956484/oklahoma-senator-tom-coburn-says-he-has-plan-to-save-medicare

To heck with means testing... what's wrong with abolishing Medicare, Medicaid and even the VA? The way to do that is to set up single payer universal health care for all, cradle to grave. Your taxes wouldn't go up as much as what you are now paying for insurance premiums, deductible­s and co-pays. It would cost half as much as it does now as proven by every industrial­ized country in the world that already has a plan to cover all it's citizens health care needs.

Coburn's lying. Medicare will remain solvent for another 26 years or more with a few minor tweaks and NO privatization. He's right, it won't pass in an election year because voters will not make this their big issue when %58 of Republicans want these entitlements.

The Teabagger/GOP's continual assault on citizens healthcare makes single-pay­er more and more likely. Go righties!

[nathanm]

Yes, to save Medicare we must...destroy it.

[AquaMan]

But what about death panels? Will we be able to save them under Coburns plan? We need those you know.