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If Obama's current plans for medicare are so much worse, why is the voting carrot to those born earlier that they will stay in it?

Of course, the media thinks that Obamacare with corrupt waivers and bloated bureaucracy is heaven on earth, but even without such a tilting of the game, it was predictable that voters would be nervous about whatever specific entitlement reform plan came out first.

Nothing really makes sense when those who are going to be swindled out of their money withheld from their pay specifically labeled for the entitlements that money is supposed to pay for, no matter which party gets its way. I don't think Obamacare is popular either. Both Obamacare and Ryancare play accounting tricks (for example, I think Ryancare assumes that the cost of medical care won't rise faster than inflation!). I think some voters will figure out how dishonest Obamacare was. But Obama was more diabolically clever than the GOP, and at this moment, Ryancare has taken some of the voters' wrath from Obamacare.

Gov Palenty was on ABC today and said he has his own plan, but when pressed said he'd vote for the Ryan plan if it and Obama-care were the only two options. That was smart talking political wise. Of course the host didnt want to know how he would fix medicare, instead she phrased the questions to ask “What would you do different from Ryan's plan?”, notice the media wants that the issue.

The should have come up with a plan that phases in changes for everyone (age wise) getting medicare starting at passage. And it should have a voluntary aspect to it (as I suggested before) so average Americans who worked and paid many hundreds of thousands of dollars of federal taxes dont feel like they are thrown out of the passenger airplane, the one that they had to pay for that others are riding in, just because they were born too late. Let the retired consumer decide if he personally wants Obama death panels or not.