""So what we have here is Medicare going from inviolate (takes an act of congress to change it), to an unelected 15-member board doing what it damn well pleases with the program.""

What that committee can do is very clearly delineated you prat, and if they overstep the bounds of that mission statement, of course they can be held to account.

You really need to stop believing in agenda driven crap less believable than Marvel Comics.

Of course, you probably do believe in Marvel Comics. They are aimed at your intellectual level, as is Tea Party propaganda.

Don T.