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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (240868)12/31/2013 11:10:32 AM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (2) of 541580
 
I didn't say that---you must have inferred it.

Well, you did but I've got far more important things to do this morning than chase down that quote from our rather lengthy back and forths. It's enough for you to admit that such a statement, were you to have made it, would be wrong. That will do.

I also said we have never put to the test how broad the support is for the Medicare/Medicaid programs by giving people the choice to opt out of them via cancelling their withholding.

Whether that would be wise or not, is one question. I agree with Sam's response later on in which he argues employer based healthcare insurance was both an accident and a mistake. And not practiced, best I've read, outside the US. At least in major developed countries. Where you are wrong is by inferring from this statement, that support for such programs is low. I've given the evidence offered by sitting politicians opposed to such programs but unwilling to try to end them. Not much more can be said.

As Bowles makes clear in the cited interview we're doomed because of demographics unless we adopt some measures to hold down spending on entitlements.

Bowles is simply wrong because he chooses to ignore two things. In the case of Social Security the effects of increasing the cap. And in the case of Medicare the effects of the cost control measures in the ACA. And, as is his political bias, he completely ignores the alternative of Medicare for everyone and its impact on costs.

It's not demographics that is the problem, it's the failure of folk like Bowles to consider the full range of options. It's the narrow mindedness of that sort of policy person that keeps the Reps notion of no tax increases alive. And "dooms" us, as you say.
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