Carol:The Democrats have not attempted to hide the fact that a large part of the Medicare cuts will come from subsidies to private insurance companies that manage the Medicare Advantage program. Perhaps the reason so many old folks like me like the program is it is so well run. That's probably because it's not run by the government, it's managed by private insurance providers.

They're saying that the cuts are going to be the waste, fraud, and abuse that they say is a big problem with Medicare. If they're saying they're going to cut subsidies to private companies that manage programs like Medicare Advantage, it must be because they have identified waste, fraud, and abuse that those companies are engaging in. If they cut out that waste, fraud, and abuse, the profits those companies realize may decrease, but that doesn't concern me. If 47 million people have to go without health insurance, and 45,000 people have to die each year because of that, just so your deluxe private insurance provider can make a bigger profit off of the taxpayers' money, then just too bad if you don't like it.

Talk about selfish. Maybe you should go find yourself an ice flow and do the honorable thing so more people can live.