http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/12/10/socialized_medicine_whatever__99494.html So this is their solution to health care reform? Isn't medicare already on very thin ice? How do they even pretend to say that we're going to lower medicare funding, yet add millions of eligible recipients? If this bill passes, it will hasten the bankruptcy of medicare and ultimately end it entirely. If you're a boomer or younger, you should be opposed to this, IMO, or medicare WILL NOT be around 15 years from now.
With a few minor changes, such as RAISING the minimum age by a few years, and raising the payroll tax limit slightly, SS could have been viable for many more decades. That is what people that are serious about keeping SS around have been talking about for years. Now we're lowing the limit? Unbelievable.....
Ok fair enough. If it's just Medicare, then that makes it marginally better. BUT, Medicare is a much bigger problem and way greater cost than SS.
Cool......But, personally, I'm for the "Public Option". But, it shouldn't be at age 55. The "Public Option" should be available to anyone. There's no other way to get a rope around the necks of the criminal insurance and medical industries. How are we going to pay for it? Give me a break. The United States government has more money than anyone could ever imagine. And, guess what? They know how to spend us into oblivion and then claim they need more. What a joke. Less taxes / Less spending / Reorganization of the criminal healthcare system / then.....Free healthcare for all!