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In reply to the discussion: Romney would raise eligibility age for Medicare [View all]Yooperman
(592 posts)100. My God ....
Why not just get rid of it completely then? I already have family members that can't retire because they don't have insurance as part of their company retirement plans.
I have personally worked with people that the only reason they were working was because their spouse wasn't old enough for medicare forcing the husband to keep working to provide her with insurance. He was 68 or 69 ... could have retired 4 or 5 years earlier and allowed for a younger person who needed a job to have one.
As for SS... there wouldn't be a problem had all the funds allocated for SS been used for SS benefits only! But it has been raided several times putting it at risk.
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I'd be happy with any Dem saying to lower it even 1 year. Don't hear that though do we?
harun
Feb 2012
#77
HR 676 projects that with an increase of 3.5% of the Medicare tax for Employer and Employee.
Fuddnik
Feb 2012
#84
Utter fantasy re: Obama. Wishful spinning with no basis in reality whatsoever.
woo me with science
Feb 2012
#62
There are some we believe he did that as a ploy to demonstrate how anything his administration did
still_one
Feb 2012
#12
The result of that would be to push more of those under his age limit into the uninsured group and
jwirr
Feb 2012
#14
A good, effective way to get rid of some of the excess population of older people.
Crunchy Frog
Feb 2012
#33
It's more like another way to lose the election in the GE if he is the nominee.
Amonester
Feb 2012
#48
without single payer, and a removal of the profit motive from healthcare, the US is fucked
stockholmer
Feb 2012
#41
Their tort systems are pretty much like ours, but people don't use it to sue doctors
eridani
Feb 2012
#102
my first response: is he TRYING to lose? second response: voters aren't the target audience.
yurbud
Feb 2012
#42
I'm shocked the way they just pass this suggestion as no big deal. Tell that to my
southernyankeebelle
Feb 2012
#44
^Post of the day^ Not only highly accurate, but goes right to the root of Mitt's problem.
Major Hogwash
Feb 2012
#81
In the case of SS, it amounts to the continued theft of FUNDED SS benefits to make Middle Class....
Faryn Balyncd
Feb 2012
#66
You are correct......and it appears many areresigned to letting this get even worse.
Faryn Balyncd
Feb 2012
#76
"...to gradually delay Americans' eligibility for Medicare as well as Social Security."
unkachuck
Feb 2012
#95