[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

Yes, and at 76 years young I have never spent a dime of medicare money. You also may be forgetting that I pay for medicare out of my Social Security payment each month. Put that in your pipe...

[Randy Larsen]

Yes, and at 76 years young I have never spent a dime of medicare money. You also may be forgetting that I pay for medicare out of my Social Security payment each month.

In the richest country on the planet this should not be allowed to happen!

[Girlene]

Yes, and at 76 years young I have never spent a dime of medicare money. You also may be forgetting that I pay for medicare out of my Social Security payment each month. Put that in your pipe...

Well, good for you. You are either quite healthy, have your own insurance plan, or pay for any health services from your own pocket as they arise. I will guarantee that the average 76 year old has used thousands of Medicare dollars. By the time they reach end of life, the amount of medicare dollars spent is pretty large for the average senior citizen. Seniors are living far longer, we provide them with much better quality of life in their later years, and generally spend a huge amount at the end of a person's life for life saving procedures. It's what we expect in America. Your numbers may add up for you, but they just don't add up for the average senior citizen. Not only have you neglected Medicare costs, you have neglected the overhead of gov't workers who will run these programs.

I mean no disrespect, so won't tell you to "put that in your pipe". Entitlements are a HUGE problem in the US. We have to start dealing with facts as they are. Wish I could pull up a pie chart for the last year. We are in deep doo-doo.