Well, jgd777, my wife and I paid into Medicare for decades.....DECADES!!!  Get that?  We expect a return on that investment.  Further, we still pay, in retirement, $244.00 per month for Part B Medicare.  You seem, as most right-wing extremists do, to want seniors just to float on their own without help.  Paul Ryan certainly wants that.  I have to laugh at right-wing extremists who, for years, talked about Obama's "death panels."  And, yet, here we are.....those same right-wing extremists, like you, essentially willing to let seniors on a fixed income just be out there with no societal support.  What people like you are saying is "just die."  I am pretty sure you must be an atheist.