Medicare is not the only thing getting privatized. The direction our nation is heading, we will be mere working minions, paying to live every day life, while 100 or so unnamed Kings ( ccorporations) will own us. We may have paper freedoms, a paper constitution and paper rights. However, no means or no time to excercise any of them. 

The irony is that it is happening right in front of our eyes and very openly and "we the people...." are busy with individual bickerings and rallies for and against.