OK, I read the report published by Kaiser. Lots of good statistics. But where in the report does it say that "President Obama wants to kill this program"?

What the report does say in it's concluding section is..."many policymakers have expressed concern about the current payment system in light of Medicare’s overall fiscal challenges, as well as equity concerns, with only a subset of beneficiaries receiving extra benefits through Medicare Advantage plans. Achieving areasonable balance among multiple goals for the Medicare program—including keeping Medicare fiscally strong, setting adequate payments to private plans, and meeting beneficiaries’ health care needs—will be critical issues for policymakers in the future."

Sounds like a suggestion for how Congress should manage the program with greater participant equity and fiscal responsibility. I guess I don't quite see how those words at the end of the Kaiser Foundation report lead to the conclusion that President Obama, or even the entire 111th Congress, was going to do much of anything regarding the Medicare Advantage portion of Medicare. The report says that the Congress probably should take some action, but how the POTUS can accomplish that with no Constitutional legislative authority kind of escapes me.

By the way, there's some excellent information on the Henry Kaiser Family Foundation website. Here's an interactive history of healthcare developments over the last century http://healthreform.kff.org/flash/he...eform-new.html

They also present an interactive comparison of the various healthcare proposals currently being considered and debated http://www.kff.org/healthreform/sidebyside.cfm

There's a lot of information in these two links as well as on the rest of the website. Well worth spending some time reading and learning from a source with some obvious expertise.