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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: d[-_-]b who wrote (146226)	10/18/2012 4:15:29 PM
From: Woody_Nickels	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224858

Yes, and really the fix to Soc. Sec. only becomes burdensome when it is neglected, and pushed back in time. There was a great article on Yahoo! a few years back about 5 relatively pain free ways to fix Soc. Security. Things like eliminate the max. income subject to SS withholding, or raise SS withholding by 1/2 percent every 7(?) years for the next 28 yrs., or raise the age for full benes to 70-72 over time. Can't remember them all, but the longer we wait to address the problem, the more drastic the fix must be. Likely, a fix for Medicare is similarly framed. However, healthcare is much more complicated overall. Doctors think like politicians... how much money do you make?... Give it to me, or suffer. We need more doctors to reduce costs, but the egos in the medical community are as bad as a union, in restricting access to funds and admissions to med schools. How Obammy could expand healthcare is beyond me. If the current program(Medicare) is going bankrupt, how can you replace it with an even more comprehensive, and obviously more expensive, system? First you make the current program solvent, then try to find a way to make healthcare more inclusive. Obammy NEVER had the experience or intellect to address either of these programs. Yet, he pretends to be The Only Answer.