Japan does not spend nearly what the USA spends on healthcare while the Japanese lifestyle provides the AVERAGE longevity that exceeds all else in the world.
The problem with Medicare is the SOCIETY in which it resides, not the plan itself.\
I don't even want to hear how benefits are going to be cut or the cost to the citizen is going up, especially the most vulnerable, UNTIL 'everything' that IS "W"rong with it is corrected! I don't want to hear how this is all genetics. I don't want to hear how this is unachievable in out lifetimes now that the Baby Boomers are coming into the program. I want to hear how all this is going to be corrected and the plan is going to be preserved. I am tired of a 'sick' USA and I want it corrected.
The people on Medicare will never stop being victimized so long as there is NO universal health care. As long as there are options for greater profits in the health care industry for corporations including physicians that are incorporated, Medicare patients will be marginalized. As the Baby Boomers come onto the program more and more physicians will be forced to accept Medicare again, otherwise, they won't have a client base and dont' think they aren't looking at their country club fees and that very real and encroaching demographic!
A good start to changing the health care paradigm in the USA is to recognize ONLY non-profit corporations that effectively use their non-profit status to reduce health care costs to their consumers while maintaining high quality care. In other words, hospitals that are non-profit, but, have a construction schedule to choke a horse is not effective use of the profit.
