Should seniors be particularly worried about government taking over all of the nation's healthcare?

You better believe it.

The Wall Street Journal points out that inevitably "those who have lived the longest will find their care the most restricted."

Already Medicare is in worse financial shape than Social Security. Yet the Obama health planners say they are going to take three or four hundred billions out of Medicare to help pay for the trillions of additional costs that will be incurred for national health care for all.

Payments will have to be cut to health care providers (your doctor, your hospital) and health care services will have to be cut to the public, the oldest being first in line since, as President Obama says, they have the potential for costing the system the most.

Medicare and Medicaid now reimburse doctors and hospitals much less than do private insurance companies. It are those insurance compaies who now make it possible for our best-in-the-world health care system to survive. Under national health care they will disappear.

If it's only government paying the providers and its program is trillions of dollars in debt and only cuts in costs and services (and skyrocketing taxes) can keep it afloat, who would survive as a doctor? Who would want to become a doctor?