[LoriAnn]

I could not agree with Blueash and Hal more! Single payor system is the only way to save the healthcare we are accustomed to. Medicare is sustainable. They are struggling because they pay out everything they take in to care for the people they insure. The people they insure are at the age that their healthcare becomes expensive. Younger and healthier people pay premiums along with their employers into private insurance companies that enjoy massive profits. If everyone paid those premiums into medicare from their first day of employment until retirement it would become a generous surplus instead of private insurance profits. I can't believe we are having a discussion in the country about taking concessions in Medicare coverage when private insurance companies are swimming in the greatest profits in history.