Medicare Choices?

I’m a bit confused on the Medicare issue.

According to Bill Clinton and CNN, criticism of Barack Obama on Medicare is unwarranted, and there is no reason to choose the Romney/Ryan plan, as it has a similar immediate effect on Medicare as the Obama/Biden policy.

Similar immediate effects, but a very major difference: the Obama/Biden plan is a government controlled, tax-payer funded, short-term solution (I use “solution” loosely)  that will need to be re-addressed again as Medicare continues inevitably along its acknowledged path to insolvency (not to be cliché, but visualize a can flying down the…well, you know), and the Romney/Ryan plan is a free-market model designed to spark competition and provide a long-term solution to Medicare within a dynamic market.

Seriously, there’s an actual choice here?

You’ll have to forgive me, but I’m working with the information given by Obama supporters, so I’m naturally a bit confused.

While briefly explaining the Romney/Ryan plan, a CNN correspondent indicated the free-market model would “in theory” promote competition and bring down prices, giving seniors more choices and greater freedom. In theory? Considering that free market dynamics have been proven to promote competition, bring prices down, and offer greater selection, why emphasize the word “theory?”

The correspondent went on to explain that the Obama/Biden plan would cut the over $700 billion from wasteful spending rather than benefits as the Romney camp had accused.

… what the…CUT $700 BILLION IN WASTE?

Why didn’t we think of that before? No wonder this guy is president, he can find his nose on his own face.

Really, that’s the master plan? Are we to believe no one has ever considered shaving the wasteful spending of Medicare, and there just happened to be over $700 billion in low hanging fruit just ripe for the picking?

If there was no mechanism within Medicare that considered wasteful spending prior to Obama taking office, then shame on him for not throwing that softball out there for Congress to crush over the 400 yard center field wall the day after he was sworn in. Way to go Mr. Unifier.

Obama, you’re fired!

Realistically, there are already mechanisms for cutting waste, and they have failed to impact spending. If CNN can be trusted on this issue and the Romney/Ryan plan is theory, then the Obama/Biden plan is a fairytale.

I must be missing something, because right now I am picturing Obama and Biden standing in an elevator and they keep lifting the “out of order” sign and pressing the button, while reassuring the folks standing in the lobby that they will send the elevator back down to pick them up.