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In reply to the discussion: White House: Raising Medicare Eligibility Age Is Off The Table [View all]Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)42. But cutting Medicare and SS is very much ON the table
We need to stay alert and ready to lobby the lawmakers over this.
http://thehill.com/special-reports/state-of-the-union-february-2013/282395-chained-cpi-an-economic-moral-disaster
Chained CPI would also be used to raise tax brackets, which would hit lower income working Americans.
President Obama has gone on record multiple times as supporting this, and yesterday's press conference was just one more example:
http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2013/02/11/for-obama-medicare-age-increase-off-the-table-chained-cpi-still-on/
There is also a relatively detailed plan for cutting Medicare:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/12/03/how-obama-would-cut-medicare-spending-in-a-deficit-deal/
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lowering the eligibility age to 55 and properly funding it should be on the table.
Warren Stupidity
Feb 2013
#1
lowering the eligibility age to 0 and properly funding it should be on the table.
Vincardog
Feb 2013
#2
Adding younger healthier people would IMPROVE Medicare's finances because
Lydia Leftcoast
Feb 2013
#5
that chart is incorrect, as it hides approx. half of the actual war machine/CIA/NSA/DHS total
Mutatis Mutandis
Feb 2013
#46
Social Security COLA indexing is still "on the table", this is not what I voted for.
xtraxritical
Feb 2013
#43
Obama should scream at the Republicans that SS does not add a penny to the deficit.
xtraxritical
Feb 2013
#48
I'm sure the hundreds of thousands of people loading the White House email with comments against--
eridani
Feb 2013
#37
He's putting Chained CPI on the table so seniors will get hurt that way instead.
forestpath
Feb 2013
#9
I didn't "find" you. You posted to me. And I used the Obama administration's own words
forestpath
Feb 2013
#31
Hurting vulnerable people at all is a big deal, at least to me it is -and I will never gloss over it
forestpath
Feb 2013
#15
So you're OK with Obama wanting to stick it to old people dependent on SS. Got it.
MotherPetrie
Feb 2013
#17
I will continue to loudly voice my opposition to making any changes to Social Security and the
xtraxritical
Feb 2013
#49
We need comprehensive protection not only for Social Security but for pensions across the board.
JDPriestly
Feb 2013
#20