I could not agree more but there isn't a politician extant of any stripe with the gumption to tackle this failure of the seniors' safety net that they (the politicians) finagled into it.  It's like a live third rail to them.

We're paying for some seniors to spend their winters in Florida or Arizona, while some other, low income seniors are back at home grappling with the question of whether to buy food or their medications, because they can't afford both.