If we are to save Medicare Benefits we have to finally face up to the Corporate greed that saturates our Health Care system and take it down. To do that we have to pivot from Republican turf and reframe the argument. Although the public is alarmed by the deficit, they don't want benefits curtailed. It follows that our message needs to be aggressive: Any cuts in Medicare must come from the corporate profiteering and not from Benefits. This means a regulatory structure that limits executive pay and benefits. In good conscience how can we cut seniors benefits while permitting the retiring CEO of United Health Care to get a billion dollar golden parachute? It means giving power to the federal government to bargain with big Pharma for volume discounts on prescription drugs and put an end to American subsidization of drug costs for all the other first world countries. It means an end to profiteering by hospitals and clinics who buy equipment like MRI machines, write off much of the cost of the purchase price to the taxpayer, massively overcharge for each use ($1600+), and prescribe them for patients who don't need them. And there are hundreds more examples of how we could cuts costs. We pay twice as much for Health Care as Europe, Canada, and Japan because we haven't had the guts to take on the corporate thieves inside the system. Now there is no choice but to fight, and the only way to win is to educate the public about what the fight is all about: Benefits vs Corporate Profiteering, it's really a pretty simple message.