MEDICARE PREMIUMS TO RISE 17% NEXT YEAR...AND THE NEXT, AND THE NEXT...

Okay, Mama, aunts and uncles: here's your next domestic terrorism alert:

Medicare beneficiaries could face a whopping 17 percent premium increase next year followed by several years of substantial increases, the program's chief actuary said Thursday.

The projected $11.50-a-month increase -- to $78.10 from the current $66.60 -- would be the largest since Medicare premiums began at $3-a-month in 1967. The exact increase will be announced this fall.

Together with the bogus Medicare prescription benefit, shouldn't this prompt you to be rethinking your commitment to vote for the boy king?