And haven't seven years of Bushplan done us a world of good?

The plan? Every man for himself.

Current attempts to sustain Medicare will ultimately fail under McCain's leadership. Medicare is embedded in our market-based entrepreneurial private system, and therefore experiences many of the same inflationary forces, including having to deal with profit-maximizing hospitals and physicians' groups. Doctors' fees are skewed to reward highly paid specialists for doing as many expensive tests and procedures as possible. As a result, Medicare inflation is almost as high as inflation in the private sector and similarly unsustainable. The McCain plan is the one Americans have now.. Pay more and get less.