There's no secret about the future of Medicare and social security. How can anybody not have heard of the Ryan plan by now and what it does. It merely dismantles both social security and Medicare. The republicans are for getting rid of them while the democrats are only willing to make a few adjustments to how they are funded. They have been very useful for seniors that never had any pension rights and worked for many years before 401k plans even existed. Mitt Romney is for the Ryan plan and Barack Obama is against it.