[DB]

I have a novel idea, seniors could start to pay for the services they use.

Socialism never works. You always run out of other peoples money.

[TigersEye]

Really? My mother has paid into SS all of her life. She also pays for a Medicare supplement insurance that just went up 17%. It's over $3,000 per year. In her 84 years she has used that for two emergency room visits and one wrist fracture.

Her meds are on a different policy that she pays separately for. Well, until I got her off of all of her meds. Then I dropped her insurance.

[kearnyirish2]

“I have a novel idea, seniors could start to pay for the services they use.”

I agree, if they’d be credited with all of the freebies they bought for the permanent underclass in their 50+ years working. Someday somebody will say that when I retire (a few decades down the road); I’ve been paying taxes, social security, medicare, etc. for over 25 years already, and have never received food stamps, welfare, housing subsidies, unemployment, etc. I think I can safely say I’ve earned credits somewhere...