You seem to just be repeating empty Democratic party talking points. It's not all just Democrats vs. Republicans, politics isn't just a football game. If Bush had tried to "cut waste" from Medicare in such an extreme way, most liberals would have been rightly mortified!! This was a drastic attack on entitlements for the purposes of debt reduction. This wasn't just Republicans using this to "scare seniors" -- socialists have made the exact same point!!!! But maybe you just get all of your ideas from MSNBC? Obviously some inefficiencies occur in any government program, but the cuts involved are huge, and are coming at a time when the total number of seniors in the country will skyrocket. If you think this won't affect care, maybe you're also the type that thinks war crimes and dead civilians in Afghanistan and Pakistan were good reason for Obama to win the Peace Prize.