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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.

“Entitlements are a HUGE problem in the US.”

Social Security is not an Entitlement...as long as you think so, you are part of the problem. If my 15% (my and my employer’s contribution) had been invested at the unreasonable low level of 5%, I would be able to live comfortably on the interest and have hundreds of thousands to pass on to heirs...even after paying medical expenses, if I were to have any.

And btw, the reason medical expenses are way out of line in this country, is because the FDA/AMA/Drug Cartels want us all to be unhealthy and to be on all kinds of prescription drugs. They love Medicare and Medicade (Medicade is an entitlement program) because it makes them all wealthy. The FDA/AMA/Drug Cartels are evil, just as the real entitlement programs are evil.