the bait for the whatever health care reform is the savings to come from fixing Medicare admin and abuse. Why is it or has it not been a priority to recoup these savings for an existing program...Medicare...with KNOWN issues, including going belly up in less than a decade.
When the whatever reform is passed the future will still include a Medicare program that goes belly up in less than a decade. So does the bait, the savings go to fix the already existing program or go to finance the uninsured? It is a double edged sword. Either way there is insufficient funding.
Additionally NOBODY expects any savings to be recovered.

The issue of funding...being deficit neutral is being played down by all the political noise.

Fix existing programs first. Then justify the new programs with solid deficit neutral planning. Ooooppppss I forgot, that would be way beyond the capability of ANY politicians. Proven by continuous historical non performance.

The reform will be no different and we the people are being tricked into buying into it.

In my very humble opinion.

btk