More Congressional Efforts to Redesign Medicare are Underway

http://capsules.kaiserhealthnews.org/index.php/2011/12/wyden-joins-forces-with-ryan-on-medicare/comment-page-1/#comment-23070

Take a look at the latest efforts regarding revamping of Medicare.  Looks like efforts to privatize - just masked behind a new "compromise".  May very well be a wolf in sheeps clothing if we're not paying attention . . . . .

Health Care & the Super Committee - the Cost of Failure

This article by Joe Paduda lays out some dire implications if the Super Committee doesn't come to an agreement in the time allotted.  Very realistic and pretty awful predictions of what could happen here . . . .

http://careandcost.com/2011/11/18/health-care-and-the-super-committee-the-cost-of-failure/

I still constantly wonder, who on the Hill is actually working for the people anymore? . . . .