Should we expand or dismantle our Medicare program?

Transform the system into a Canadian or European style single payer system that can negotiate pricing for medication and treatments

Dismantle

Reform

Keep "as is"

Expand

do not give it to every person in the country,stop handing it to illegals,give more local control,tougher penalty's for fraud and cheating

Medicare was put into the social security system in the 1960s to assist the elderly with rising health care costs. It should only be available as a last resort, but it should NOT be controlled by accountants, but rather, State Medical Review Boards for oversight and administration.

I worked all my life and took pay cuts to keep my medical insurance for the rest of my life. Now medicare takes over and deducts $100+ dollars a month from my SS. And I now have nowhere near the choices had before,in who cares for me when sick or injured. Insurance companies make money from both ends. Now that is not fair or equitable. Work hard. Then at 65, start paying for others who did not.

We should have doctors and other healthcare professionals come together with insurance and drug companies. Eliminate lawyers and politicians from the conversation. Then after the best treatment plans are hashed out, bring in the suits to openly debate how we pay for it. No more reading it after we sign it crap.

For the $ paid on the "new" program, we could've hired people to go "line for line" in investigating the ABUSES of the Medicare system, fixed them, made other necessary adjustments and gone from there. Now - it looks like a government funded genocide is about to occur - God help us all... And can I just say - WHY does medical have to cost so much anyway? Why did the same loaf of bread that I've been buying for over 50 years go from 10cents to over $2+++ Why is there such a thing as inflation - seriously? My country doctor's charged us $10 an office visit - now it's well over $200 for maybe 10 minutes with the doctor and far less help than we used to get. Why? I know, I know - cost of running the office, new technology, etc - well - that may be but somewhere in all that is abuse so fix that instead.

for those who must use Medicare and its various "parts" the system needs to be clear and plain about what it does and does not cover. While "end of life" issues are sensitive and affect more than just the beneficiary, allowed measures need to address more than just cost, which is what Obamacare has brought us to. "It costs too much to keep old people healthy and alive, so cut their healthcare and let them die sooner..." should not be the reward for those who worked for these benefits.

If our federal and state governments weren't stealing so much of the taxpayers money and invested it as promised, there would not be a shortfall (like Social Security) and a crisis

'Senios' have been paying into Medicare and Social Security their entire lives. They are only getting back a port of what they put it. If the government would invest the money wisely there would be plenty to go around.

Keep as is but eliminate fraud! (and keep illegals from using)

Coordinate it with the President's Affordable Care Act, which is what is supposed to happen per the terms of the law.

The healthcare industry needs to be reformed, including offering estimates of what a procedure will cost and a consumer should not have to pay unless he gets the result he has been told he can expect.