Posted on 12/02/2020 12:15:01 PM PST by taxcontrol
I was just thinking that with thousands dying from Covid, that the pressure on Social Security should be lessening. Has anyone seen an analysis?
Ah Hitler...1930s. Useless eaters.
This !
1 -- Even pre-china virus the main problem with the SS system was the disability portion, not the pension portion. So even if there are a lot of dying old people (believe it or not not all old people live in nursing homes of Dim states), that's a "help" to a part of the SS system that wasn't in much jeopardy anyway.
2 -- John Hopkins recently reported that overall deaths in 2020 aren't up anyway -- even with all the china virus hype making us think everybody's dying (just like the media likes us to think that everybody around us is a gay pro-abortion peaceful protestor burning down our towns).
And to add to the post I just made, the death rates for nursing home patients was MUCh higher than anywhere else.
These were old seniors who would have probably passed some time in the next 12-18 months; but I have to believe that the Medicaid savings for those months are going to be a mini-windfall for Cuomo come budget time.
This is in addition to ALL of the other medicaid spending that was saved because routine medical visits were not made during the shut downs. Things like podiatrists and other “elective” visits were put off—saving them tons of money.
AND Covid treatment was mostly picked up by the Feds.
It will be interesting to see how that plays out.
Medicaid has nothing to do with Social Security.
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Do you have a link for that? I couldn’t find it.
Thanks
The savings would be miniscule compared to the loss of payroll contributions, imo.
fewer people working means less money being paid into SS, thus insolvency date moves closer. May be what big government people want. People looking to the big Dem government for help? Insidious.
When you consider the simple FACT that the Death Rate has NOT gone up and realize all the deaths attributed to the ChiCom Flu were deducted from other causes like Heart Attack, Diabetes, Pnuemonia, Influenza, stroke,... and there is direct correlation demonstrating so, I would say IT DIDN’T CHANGE A THING
Sent you a PM with the information.
Here is the link: Weekly death stats in Canada show COVID hasn't DEVASTATED the country
Why do you think Cuomo sent all of the sick to nursing homes?
“I was just thinking that with thousands dying from Covid, that the pressure on Social Security should be lessening. Has anyone seen an analysis?”
No decrease in total death rates.
Yep, zero impact.
Not too difficult an analysis to conduct yourself.
250,000 people have died WITH covid.
75% of the deaths are in the above age 65 group.
Average social security payment is about $20,000 per year.
That will give you a ballpark number
Not too difficult an analysis to conduct yourself.
250,000 people have died WITH covid.
75% of the deaths are in the above age 65 group.
Average social security payment is about $20,000 per year.
That will give you a ballpark number
Let me add:
Offsetting that number is the number of deaths from all causes in 2020 for the above age 65 group any different than in prior years.
Hmm, maybe. I did get a $5/month increase in my SS ck for next month . But my health insurance went up $100 so there ya go 👎 ...Lol
There are no excess deaths, said the CDC recently.
https://alphanewsmn.com/johns-hopkins-academic-cdc-data-shows-covid-hasnt-increased-us-death-rate/
Liberals AROUND THE WORLD like killing off old people.
They are a drain on resources and don’t (in their opinion) have any social value to the collective.
Many, many examples.
If you assume that all the deaths were old, useless, sick people, then the 275,000 dead would be 0.4% of the 65 million people that receive Social Security benefits.
Of course, since about 20% weren’t even old enough to collect SS, that reduces the number to .32%. A third of a percent, or 1/300th of the statistical population, is not gonna show on any analysis outside the margin of error.
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