This short article is an alarm for anyone who thinks Medicare should not be cancelled. Paul Ryan has other ideas.

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I just heard on NPR's program, The Takeaway, that Paul Ryan has a draft bill in hand to end Medicare and substitute a privatized program that would give Social Security recipients an allowance each year to be used for any medical cost and let recipients buy care on the open market. He is said to have the votes to pass this bill.

Are you on Medicare? Do you have a relative or friend who is? What do you think will happen to you/them? The death rate for seniors will skyrocket. Paul Ryan doesn't give a damn.

I say this is a third rail issue. When I say third rail I'm not talking about any civilized protest either.

If this bill is filed and goes to a vote I'm sure that every US Rep. who speaks for it and/or votes for it will pay dearly for it. There may be blood in the streets.

What do you think should be done now to convey the gravity of this issue? Please comment.

Authors Website: http://www.LastTrain2ElPaso.com

Authors Bio:

I am a retired physicist and hold a B.S. in Ch. E. as well. I have been an environmental activist since the early 1970s. I was a founding member of the Save Barton Creek Association in Austin, TX. In 2006 I was a member of a select committee of the Philmont Staff Association to advise Philmont Scout Ranch about opposing El Paso Natutal Gas's plan to drill and frack in the Valle Vidal in Carson National Forest. I studied the technology of horizontal gas drilling and the environmental effects associated with it. We defeated the plan proposed by El Paso Natural Gas. have been an active opponent of urban gas drilling in Fort Worth, TX since 2006. My present focus is global warming and the ominous effect of increasing atmospheric CO2.

I have been a writer of opinion pieces and other essays since about 1995 and am a published author of history of the old west. My book, Last Train To El Paso--the Mysterious Unsolved Murder of a Cattle Baron was published in 2014. I have had two articles published in Wild West magazine,. The most recent one, titled "How Jim Miller Killed Pat Garrett" was the lead article in the August 2018 issue.



I have studied monetary systems since 1968.



I am an owner of a home with mineral rights in Fort Worth, Texas. I am politically a progressive.