The issues are the corruptness, the look the other way administrators, the do nothing to fix it politicians.
Most benefactors I know, some with catastrophic illnesses have been well covered by Medicare and the supplemental carriers of private insurance for Medicare.
For example, I can say that we, my wife and I, have not had to write a check for any health related issues since turning 65 and having Medicare as our primary insurance and AARP Supplemental Insurance.....including my wife's bout with breast cancer and all the specialists and treatments and medications.
Medicare is not the problem....the crooked, cheating, stealing persona of our society (includes all politicians local and federal). How many years have they all known the problems/issues affecting Medicare? That is how many years they have done nothing to fix the issues. Theses are the same people who are now magically going to extract $500 billion from Medicare?

As has been written many times by many levels of reporting....the current health care system does not need reform....IT HAS AND CONTINUES TO NEED REPAIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Remember that no matter what we have today....it will be the best we ever HAD!!!!!!!!!!

Wait until the additional 30-45,000,000 hit the system....how about a pool on bankruptcy? Not whether but picking when!!

btk