It’s a third rail. Look what just happened to Ryan. Burned him big time. We have a perfect storm coming - aging Boomers who represent the biggest voting block in the country. I think we’re going to watch the US implode in slow motion.
Thanks Conservative Coulter Fan.
The Rats want to capitate medicare. In other words have bad deals like scam insurance policies with “up to’s”. 100% coverage...up to 10,000 and so forth.Unbelievable. A Dr. would get a certain amount...per head per year. It is going to be 3rd world America.
It’s the wrong issue.
Medicaid and gimme handout free money from Obama’s unlimted stash as well as state-funded welfare entitlements are going to catch up with us sooner than Medicare, which is a hot-button (”you’re killing Grandma!”) issue.
the problem with medicare is that it caused repeat business on a grand scale.
Yes.
What language is the best to learn for an American, Chinese?
I wish Ryan had just stayed clear from the issue. He was bound to lose anyway and the dollar must and WILL crash soon. I would have preferred that the Republicans play defensive (relatively speaking) and win back the Senate and White House in 2012
My fear is that the Dems will somehow stay in power when the dollar crash sends us into a depression that will make the 1930s look like a cakewalk. At that point, if the Democrats are in power, they will have a wounded animal (i.e., the United States economy) by the neck and can finally get around to putting the final knife in.
...and their dreams from college will be fulfilled.
The idea is a fallacy. Medicare is not going away. At some future time, it will be reformed. How far that reform goes and what it looks like is anyones guess at this point. No matter what happens, the Demlibs will continue to demagogue ANY reform proposal Republicans put forward. The left will use class warfare and scare seniors to keep their power base and perpetual idea of bigger government as far as they can push it.
If the GOP takes control of the Senate in 2012, good chance some substantial reform of Medicare will happen. With the right Republican in the WH, serious reform is assured.
Otherwise, its status quo, from here to eternity, or until financial collapse of the system.
I’ve got Medicare. I’m 66. I have Medicare Advantage, which AARP would like to GUT, and the idiotic thing is that AARP Health Care is through United HealthCare and SO IS MY Medicare Advantage.
1- The Government is untrustworthy and never took care of SSA Investments as they ‘said’ they would.
2- Congress should have LONG AGO raised the retirement age to coincide with the average age men/women die. Social Security Retirement and Medicare that goes with it was supposed to be like Fire Insurance on your home. You pay for it but never expect to use it and surely hope your home never burns down.
3- Like any Government program, setting it up was the easy part, changing it is like pulling eye-teeth, and discontinuing it is like killing your Mama. It’s going to be impossible to just ‘end’ Medicare.
4- RSDI-Retirement AND Medicare CAN be altered IF Congress has the backbone to make changes ... A-Correct the system as it was intended and protect SSA-Taxes from being stolen for any other use by Congress. B-Raise the Age of SSA-R Eligibility for people born on or after 1 January 1970 to 72 for early retirement and 75 for full retirement with Medicare. C-Raise the Age of SSA-R Eligibility for people born on or after 1 January 2000 to 82 for early retirement and 85 for full retirement with Medicare.
5- FEDERAL EMPLOYEES should be on SSA like everyone else. The money in their retirement system should be placed in the SSA fund and used accordingly. Federal Employees should have the same ‘option’ as SSA taxed employees ... funding their own 401-K or IRA. And Federal Employees, Teachers, etc, should have the same single option as everyone else ... Medicare and a Supplement. Period. Otherwise, we’re not a ‘classless’ society ... Federal Employees [and Union leaders, etc] are NOT the ruling class, even if they seem to think they are.
6- This isn’t going to happen unless and until enough people with GUTS realize that the only way to even the playing field for retirees is to look at the bigger picture.
YES, someone should have already raised the early retirement and Medicare age for me ... but they didn’t ... it must be done, and done soon, or we’re all going to end up with NOTHING for our SSA taxes that the Federal Government takes out of our checks and misuses so freely.
“Are Conservatives Afraid to Takedown Medicare?”
It hurts to say this, but “taking down Medicare” is going to do as much for conservatism as did G.W. Bush’s attempt to “reform” Social Security after the ‘04 elections.
Which party won in 2006?
The reason is people paid into it and the worry is someone will get screwed in that way. So changes in that area must be transitional in nature.