Now, here's a journalist who's been around the block a few times:
From the viewpoint of the beneficiaries, Medicare has been extremely popular. If it ain’t broke, etc, etc. The current Republican notion of the codgers happily using a voucher to buy their own coverage privately boggles the mind—unless, of course, your mind has been clouded by the delirium of winning an election. Even Newt Gingrich was never that giddy.
The Dish 