Medicare being affected

This slumping economy also threatens the Medicare provision in this country for the baby-boomers population. People have county on this program being available when they reach an age of need, but with this economy, this program is seen as a potential drain on an already deficit economy, which may be more of a death sentence than a resolution, "There is no way to solve this problem without either raising taxes or cutting programs, or doing some of both. Right now that is a political death sentence, and we have to change that... ", http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/blog/2008/02/where_does_and_should_the_mone.html.