It's Too Hard

Medicare is too hard. Reuters (03.25.05):

"The U.S. Medicare system, which provides health care to the elderly, faces more serious shortfalls in coming years than Social Security does, and its problems are much harder to fix, a Treasury Department official said on Friday." Treasury: Medicare Harder to Fix Than Social Security

We're gonna work on Social Security instead. Here's what the Treasury guy said: "'Much more analytical groundwork needs to be done and experience gathered before we as a society can begin to coalesce around options that completely address the unsustainable growth in Medicare and other health care expenditures.'" Begin to coalesce around our options? Yow!! Sounds kinda like Jello. Translation? Because we haven't done our homework, we don't know what to do, so we're going to ignore Medicare, focus on Social Security, and hope for a freakin' miracle.