Hardly anyone paid in enough to cover their medicare and no-one in medicaid did...most people would get like 25% of their current coverage even with the employer portion. SS is a different story.
That may be true, but they were going to put our contributions in a "lockbox" where it would "grow" [please suppress your laughter].
The mental giants in DC came up with this socialist scheme. Of course now they'd like for us to "die early and quickly".
Here we go again....”I’m a conservative, but I love socialism that takes from others and gives to me”. SS and Medicare are both “paygo”, i.e. they took our money and immediately gave it to someone else (there are no real “trust funds”, “lockboxes”, etc). When we say we are “entitled” because our money was taken from us, we make no more moral sense than someone who mugs you and justifies it on the basis that someone mugged him. “Social welfare programs” are just evil vote-buying ponzi schemes, and ultimately someone gets left holding the bag. Looks like it may be us...
The real problem is SSDI. Way too many people on SSDI are out waterskiing on the weekends. If you can walk, stand, or sit on your own, NO disability!
“Hardly anyone paid in enough to cover their medicare....”
While that is true it is also true what we DID pay into
Medicare we could have invested into money making
endeavors instead. In addition, there are those who
paid into the pool (or whatever it is called) for a
whole career but failed to live long enough to utilize
Medicare after coming of age.