By returning them some actual part of what they've paid in, as opposed to NOTHING. That is YOUR alternative: to bankrupt the country. The healthcare system for all Americans is in trouble because of Medicare and Medicaid. Those programs distort the market and make cost containment impossible. The government should NOT be involved in healthcare and if we can't summon the will to force that issue, we can at least get people to save their money into the fund and perhaps get at least some of it back someday.
What good will that do to someone in a nursing home? Someone 96 tears old and senile?
What utter crap. The person you're talking about will experience this issue in no less than 42 years! If you can't save enough money to take care of yourself in 42 years, please don't come whining to me about bailing you out.
No-one buys such Koolaid [sic].
YOU are the one drinking Kool-Aid. Under even the most unrealistic assumptions Medicare will be completely exhausted in 15 years. It is ALREADY -- as of right now -- impossible for the program to meet its future obligations.
You aren't a conservative or a libertarian. Please stop pretending to be one. Please go drink your Kool-Aid over at DU, or some other forum where they swallow the crap that the money is going to hold out forever if we just garnishee peoples' pensions and kill all the "rich" people. Even that won't save the Entitlements for very long.
Lie, you are bankrupting the country by passing nothing and electing Democrats.
RE :” If you can't save enough money to take care of yourself in 42 years, please don't come whining to me about bailing you out ”
Again you show yourself to be dishonest or just ignorant. Nursing homes on the east cost ~ 6K per month, = 72K per year. So lets see, the fellow retiring at a salary of 50K could live 15 years in a nursing home and you scoff because he doesnt save 1.08 million dollars for his retirement with a boom bust economy, You are very dishonest about the issue by lying and saying you are protecting this person. At least go out and tell the truth what you will do with the millions in nursing care homes.