If you are old and paid all your life into Medicare so you would have health benefits in your infirmity, you just got screwed. The President and his partners in the Senate and House passed what they will tell you is a great improvement in Medicare. Believe me when I tell you that it is the death knell for your invested Medicare funds. They are taking it so the rich 1% can have their precious tax refunds. This from the NYT today: "Representative Jim McGovern, Democrat of Massachusetts, countered, "This bill ends Medicare as we know it and turns it into a convoluted, complicated voucher program." And Representative Sander M. Levin, Democrat of Michigan, denounced the bill as "a radical effort to dismantle Medicare."

Sorry for all you old foks that spent your money on a plan that was working fine and had funding for another forty years. I hope all us old folks remember this at election time.