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I get so sick of hearing that this will lose Florida (supposedly because of its high percentage of old people on Medicare).

First of all, being elderly doesn’t make you dumb, and most people who receive medicare are already unhappy with it and know that something has got to be changed. It’s inefficient, cumbersome and on top of that doesn’t provide very good coverage. What other insurance program requires that you buy another insurance policy to cover its lacks?

And they also know that the plans for restructuring wouldn’t affect them personally because nobody over 55 would be affected.

Finally, Florida has the highest Medicare fraud rate in the nation and everybody knows it. Billions of dollars go out to fraudulent doctors and clinics in Florida and there are huge rings that use these seniors - who generally do not even know they are being used until photos of the raids and arrests appear in the newspapers.

Granted, there are a lot of left-wing seniors from the northeast who live in South Florida who will probably howl just on principle, but I honestly think a lot of people would be happy to see changes in Medicare.

Here is a good article that supports your post.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-campaign-lies-about-ryan-medicare-reform_649808.html

.........While 69% of Americans age 55 and older think they will receive Social Security benefits, a mere 22% of 18- to 34-year-olds and 32% of 35- to 54-year-olds think the program will even be around when they retire. Changes to Medicare—even the modest changes Ryan and Romney favor—might spook current beneficiaries or those close to retirement, but it’s hard to imagine why younger voters would vote against a candidate for altering a program from which they don’t expect to benefit. If anything, Ryan’s plan offers the under-55 crowd the best hope that these programs will still be functioning when they reach retirement.

Medicare reform generally does not poll well. For example, one ABC/Washington Post poll in April 2011 found that 78 percent of Americans oppose “cutting Medicare” to reduce the deficit. But when voters learn that Medicare reform doesn’t affect those over 55, the plan is an electoral wash.............