It's a shame that a meeting on medicare with 60 people present mostly seniors and only 1 question pertained to medicare. And that question came from a 57 year old woman who drove there, not a senior. Cuts to medicare directly impact seniors and this group could care less is the picture I got from this article. The reason people are getting torn apart at other town hall meetings is because the wave of Republican support in the last election came from a lot of seniors, these same seniors that are now going to receive lesser services if medicare starts getting cut. That's why there is a backlash right now during other town hall meetings on this issue. You don't bite the hand that feeds you, isn't that the saying.

It is also a shame that Harris doesn't let his constituents know about these meetings until just a few hours before. We got the call informing us of a 1 pm meeting last night near 8 pm. His choice of time and place makes it impossible for people who work for a living to attend and ask questions ( and believe me, I have a TON of questions for him). I have written to his office about this and, as with all my correspondence and the correspondence of everyone I know who has written him, have never received the courtesy of a reply. Either he can't run his office effectively or he doesn't care about his constituents ( or perhaps both). I pray that he is redistricted away from my community near Phoenix as he is an absolute embarrassment.

...these same seniors that are now going to receive lesser services

Jeff, just so long as they don't describe it as "rationing" they'll probably get away with it.

Maybe you can't "tax your way out of it", but part of the reason we're in the boat we're in is because we haven't taxed enough.

The taxation level in this country is the lowest it has been in 60 years. If we hadn't listened to the "trickle down" folks, like Reagan, we wouldn't be in this predicament right now.

Looks like we might be in for a replay. Trump, the reality TV star, may be the next President. Maybe he'll follow the lead of the B movie actor. Although I sure hope not.

Excuse me, we're not taxed enough? Or our precious benefits that didn't exist when we started working won't be there when we finish working? Man, some of you folks sound a little pretentious. What about the next generation? What, do they not count? Run up a massive credit card bill than leave them with a debt inheritance? So thoughtful of you all.

The Republicans aren't doing enough. The bottom line is we're strangling ourselves with entitlement spending and Medicare is the biggest culprit. At least Social Security will slow down after the Baby Boomers, but Medicare is pegged to grow even further out of control.

So much for the 'greatest generation' and their kind. Turning into the 'generation me'. We think our kids are spoiled in their actions--look at our debt decisions! We're horrible role models and it's really pretty pathetic.

I would've liked to attend the meeting, but my Congressman chose to notify his constituents only a few hours in advance. It's hard to call it a town hall meeting when the town residents are excluded.

This clown can't go away soon enough.

The surest way to reduce Medicare costs is to adopt a single-payer health care system. Repubs refuse to consider this because it would mean less money in the pockets of their corporate bosses. Don't forget--Harris just voted to ABOLISH MEDICARE. Don't be fooled by this corrupt hack. He's only a tool for the insurance companies.

This is the same Andy Harris who threw a hissy fit over the ninety day waiting period for his federal health insurance, and who will never be dependent on Medicare himself. We could save a lot of money if Congress had to buy their health insurance in the open marketplace.

Here's another thing to remember about this meanspirited dirtbag: The Republican budget that just passed through the House (and that Harris voted for) slashed funding to help premature babies to survive.

The seniors at this meeting are not concerned because any changes to Medicare will not affect people over 55 now. I wish that all these comments would forgo the personal attacks and concentrate on solving the problem. Dr. Harris is an intelligent, well-educated anesthesiologist who has devoted his career to helping women in childbirth. He is not evil, stupid, a clown, or any of the other insults posted here. His office answers all letters or emails promptly.Please don't post lies. You may not agree with his solution, but please give us your answer to solving the problem,not insults.

Roman,
Fortunately nobody (excluding yourself maybe) believes your outlandish and completely false statements. Harris never voted to "ABOLISH MEDICARE" like you accuse and if you believe that, maybe you should sign off of the DailyKos. Much like the emotion-inducing liar Alan Grayson, you try and use completely false information to distract people from the real problems facing us. The Medicare Trustee board told us that Medicare will be broke in 8 years and Timothy Geithner told us that their report means we need to start "... gaining control of the growth of Medicare costs by delivering health care services more efficiently". No one in Congress, except maybe the crazy Paul family, actually wants to dismantle or even drastically change medicare. We need to put Medicare on a sound fiscal route to insure that my generation as well as everyone else has the safety net in place should something horrible happen.