Sorry Terrance, "Life is too short to be little." We make our lives little by filling them with jealousies and grudges, self-righteousness and self-deception, shallow or dysfunctional relationships, and work without purpose or meaning. Life is enlarged by giving and receiving love, by parenting and teaching, by encouraging and supporting, by charity and service, and by expanding our knowledge and exploring profound truths.

So Terrance, do have a point with the subject at hand? Obviously not, you show mare interest in my profession and station in life. What about this "radical ideology"? Any gray matter up there?

Another desperate rhetorical rant from James Roach PharmD. Who cares if he's a wealthy Laguna Hills pharmacist? It does not impress, or add any weight to his terrified blather. Feeling threatened sunshine? His web page is simply nauseating, self- congratulatory, propaganda. If you can stand to read it folks, it's at ams-arx.com

Richard, would you have the Medicare program continue it's current path to oblivion or make changes now to support future recipients. I believe his reason for changes not affecting current beneficiaries and those who will be receiving benefits in the next ten years is that their retirement planning for the most part has been done and would be severely impacted should the changes include them. People who will not receive benefits for 10 or more years have time to adjust their retirement's financial planning and still have a positive outcome. Per The American Heritage College dictionary entitlement program "A government program that guarantees and provides benefits to a particular group". So YES Medicare is an entitlement program, let's not mince words about that. That may not fit your agenda but it is what it is.

If the Ryan plan to overhaul Medicare is such a good idea, why does he say it won't apply to those currently on Medicare and those who will become eligible for Medicare for the next 10 years? If his proposal is a good way to save Medicare, why not advocate for it to start now? Why wait? Sounds like Ryan is pulling his punch because he knows his ideas turn off seniors, who mostly like Medicare. Ryan is smart to delay the start of his Medicare plan. Look at his plan to see why. Turning Medicare into a voucher program in which the vouchers won't cover the cost of insurance guarantees that Medicare beneficiaries will pay more out-of-pocket. The best way to understand proposals advocated by Ryan or Obama is to simply look at their content, not by talking about what church Ryan or Obama went to or who is more radical. BTW, it's time to stop referring to Medicare as an "entitlement program." It is a tax-payer supported government program. I've paid Medicare taxes for 43 years.

"President Obama and other Democrats on Sunday quickly criticized the selection and sought to link Romney to Ryan's 'radical' ideology" on Medicare, the Washington Post reports."
OMG! "Radical Ideology"? Excuse the pun, but is this not the pot calling the kettle black?
Obamamcare, in fact Obama's entire political career, since even before being placed in his present office has professed nothing more than a "radical ideology." Anyone remember "the Change"; the Reverend Wright, a radical "transformation" of America and the famous "redistribution of wealth."
WAshington Post....what else would you expect.