Had a conversation at the mailbox with my elderly neighbor whose husband passed away after a horrible accident. She is as anti government as they come but when she started telling me of the enormous cost of the complicated Medivac, the seven days in Intensive Care without even the seven surgeons and nursing staff and I said, "Thank god for Medicare" a light of recognition shone in her eyes. Republicans fought Medicare as hard as they are fighting the ACA but they willingly sponsored and fought for the Medicare Part D because it was such a blatant giveaway to their prime campaign contributor PHARMA. Medicare works without all the overhead of our current health insurance industry. It is a model that should be embraced by both parties as a partial solution to the insanely high cost of medical/insurance in America. We have the most expensive but not necessarily the best health care in the developed world. It's time both parties came together to address it without all the partisan rancor.