What's the Democrat Plan to "Save" Medicare?

So, the rallying cry among the neo-nut right-wing folks is,"Well, what's the Dem's plan to save Medicare?  Huh?  Huh?"

Laughable question, especially coming from a group that was just battling over destroying that program.  Where does the sudden concern come from?  Most certainly not from their care about taking care of citizens.  The GOTeabaggers demonstrated that very clearly over the past 3 years:  Fighting against the Affordable Care Act (Which extends the solvency of Medicare - http://www.ohanet.org/Newsletter-Issue/newsletterissueHealthENews051611); proposing a budget which destroys Medicare (Paul Ryan's plan - http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-how-paul-ryans-budget-plan-screws-old-people-2011-4), which interestingly enough pays for more corporate handouts by cutting spending on the elderly; and the desire to cut every social program in the federal budget, while cutting taxes for the wealthy.

Right now, the "plan" to save Medicare is first and foremost, prevent the GOTeabaggers from destroying Medicare.  Phase one is accomplished, when the Senate voted down the Ryan plan.

The poor economy caused a regression of the projected solvency of both Medicare and Social Security.  So, the first action is to continue to promote economic growth.  We need to kill the $50 billion annually we hand to the oil companies, and turn it over to companies like J.B.I of Niagara Falls, who is doing phenomenal work to extend our world's oil reserves (http://www.wivb.com/dpp/news/niagara/Falls-business-turns-plastic-into-fuel).  Imagine if firms such as J.B.I. had $50 billion annually to do R&D?  J.B.I. alone created a new industry, and adds 20 green jobs to our local economy, without any R&D funding from the government.

Now, the Democratic party needs to figure out how to do another round of amendments to the Affordable Care Act to tweak (Not destroy) Medicare.

So, the Democratic plan is not 100% complete, but we can't assume that a complete, and total fix will ever happen.  The only thing we can do is keep pushing it out, through minor tweaks to the system.  And, by improving the economy, solvency gets pushed even further out.

So, yes, the Democratic Party does have a plan.  The problem is:  The GOP is trying to stop it at all costs.  The GOP is trying to destroy the economy by bringing us to a halt (See the debt ceiling issue); trying to cut all of the social safety net programs needed by people who have lost their jobs; and by cutting all revenue into the US, while putting even more war machine dollars on the credit card.