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Medicare does, in fact, work and has worked since 1965. It has done a great job of keeping health care costs under control to the tune of about twelve percent under its private industry counterparts. Funding went south when the Bush Administration added Part D with no corresponding method to fund the new drug benefit. They looked good, all the while sticking a huge monkey wrench into the program. One might even speculate it was intentional, if one is to believe that politicos can think that far ahead, which I do not. The true dinosaur is employment based group health plans. This practice grew out of the post WW2 economy as a retention tool. Government tax policy encouraged the free ride for good little workers in major industries. Now that we will all be working 39 hours at WalMart, if we're lucky, we should stop believing in the health care fairy and face a stiff dose of reality. We all know it bites.