“Keep the government out of Medicare”

Right-wing activists seem to have a rallying cry: “Keep the government out of medicare”. This seems to show the problem with a rational health care debate, only one side is rational, and the other side is pretty clearly uninformed and perhaps crazy.
The anti-health care zealots do seem to be showing a need for mental health counseling among a large portion of the U.S population, hopefully they will provide for that in the final health care bill.