Stop paying all welfare and put the funds into SS for the people who paid in not the freeloaders.
And if they refuse to eat cake, then what? We have a very different population than we did during the depression.
What has to be done is to reduce Health Care Costs from 20% of GDP down to where it’s supposed to be, 5%. The only way to do that is destroy the Medical Cartels and Health Insurance Cartels by Anti-Trust to force the costs down by say 80% or more. Then you have saved Medicare and SS.
Of course about 2 Million plus people in Health Care will lose their jobs. But no one wants to do that, so a collapse of the system is going to come.
20% of GDP for Health Care is not sustainable.