"Let's Fix Medicare, Instead of Destroying It," Write Famous Advocates for Healthcare

That's the way I feel too so I was drawn in by the headline and jumped right to the story, which began:

"Writing in the National Post, Marni Soupcoff called Brian Sinclair, an aboriginal man who died needlessly in a Winnipeg ER waiting room, a “martyr to medicare” ..."

I was mislead multiple ways.

1. The authors were Canadian, not American.
2. Why does Canadian Medicare (Canada's version of Obamacare) need fixing; the left keeps telling me it is the greatest thing since sliced bread?

Oh well, back to our own problems. Give us seniors a defined contribution (some call it premium support; others call it voucher) healthcare plan just like the one we've had for the 50 years before we went on U.S. Medicare. 

For Democratic senior citizens that want the uncoordinated health care of Original Democratic-Party/LBJ Medicare with its $1200 hospitalization deductibles, 20% co-pays, no annual physical, no drug coverage, limits on skilled nursing, no annual out of pocket limits, lifetime limits on acute-care hospital benefits, and state-run private gap insurance that does not guarantee coverage in case of a pre-existing condition, let them buy it¹. Let the rest of us buy real coordinated one-stop-shopping insurance -- from high deductible to Cadillac if we want it, just as we can today through public Part C Medicare health plans and (for a decreasing few of us) employer-retirement policies.

1Four Harvard professors just proved that almost no one will take Original Democratic-Party/LBJ Medicare even when it is almost given away in zero-premium/Part-B-rebate Part C Medicare Advantage plans