Iamdjchrys Loc: Decatur, Texas

Medicare would be fine if the trillions stolen from it was put back!

Iamdjchrys Loc: Decatur, Texas

Excuse me but trillions have been stolen from SS by Republicans. Repay SS ant it wull no longer be in a deficit

buffalo Loc: Texas

"Throw that many people on a government program"??? 20% of US the population (the elderly and the poor) generates 80% of the cost of medical CARE in the US while private, for profit health INSURANCE giants profit $500 BILLION annually from the 80% of the US population that generates only 20% of the cost of medical CARE. Government (taxpayers) already fund 65% of medical costs (Medicare, Medicaid, VA, city, county, state and federal employees). Do the math, J. If you could get the same or better quality medical CARE for 1/3 of what you pay now in premiums by paying taxes into a Medicare for All system, would it be worth it? 243 MILLION adults in the US pay some form of federal taxes. Instead of paying $1.75 TRILLION to private, for profit health insurance giants, reduce that to $500 Billion in additional taxes, incorporate medicaid and the VA expenses and, viola, Medicare for All becomes affordable.

cephusbob

COST

moldyoldy

We pay anyway, the emergency room is not free. Medicare is cheaper.

buffalo Loc: Texas

Over $3 TRILLION to be more precise, to fund illegal, unConstitutional, immoral wars that only further enrich the military industrial corporations and Wall Street Banksters.

mongo Loc: TEXAS

L.B.J. was a democrat.

SEMPER FI

Louie27 Loc: Peoria, AZ

You do not know about history of the Social Security program. During the LBJ term the Social Security fund was removed from the trust and place into the General Fund. That was no fault of the Republicans. Democrats removed the tax deduction for S.S. and Carter gave S.S. to immigrants even if they had never put money into the account. So where on earth did you get it was the Republicans fault. Oh! Sorry about that, it was from the liberals of this country who promoted that propaganda. Who have also taken hundreds of millions from Medicare to use for the ACA act. I suppose in your eyes that was also the Republicans fault.

GmanTerry

You don't pay very much attention to the viability of government programs, do you? Social security and Medicare are Ponzi schemes and are destined to go broke, sooner than later. They already eat up most of our federal taxes. Now you want to throw medical care in and make it the deadly trio. After Obamas' 10 trillion in debt, he has pushed us closer to bankruptcy. Unless you want to live in the Bernie Sanders wonderful socialist peoples' workers' paradise and have the government confiscate most of your income... socialism is a BAD idea.

The general spending picture changes substantially once Social Security and Medicare are removed. At 11.3 percent of GDP, total program spending outside Social Security and Medicare is already below its 40-year average of 12.0 percent of GDP and CBO projects it will fall to 10.5 percent of GDP in 2027.

We are becoming like Europe, Feance and Italy aren't far behind Italy.

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/france-and-italy-next-economic-crash-europe-a7054801.html

In other words, we can't afford another government giveaway program for the lazy left. Get a job.

Semper Fi

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

It should tell us something that the biggest proponent of single payer is Bernie "I can spend your money smarter than you" Sanders. He has even introduced a "Single Payer" bill. Just knowing this retard supports something is enough for me. He should be the economic advisor in Venezuela. Huh, maybe he is.

moldyoldy

The politicians stole the money from the trust fund, now they say it is going broke because they do not want to pay it back

GmanTerry

Funny that you mention that. I haven't used my medicare in three years. Last year I got my yearly letter explaining my expenses. They claimed I had spent about $120.00 on something during the year. Wrong. spent nothing. I tried for a couple of hours to contact someone about the fraudulent charge but I couldn't find a way to contact anyone. I gave up. It must be pretty easy to steal from medicare if they have no way to report fraud.

Semper Fi

Louie27 Loc: Peoria, AZ

The government just gives the Social Security programs worthless checks for what they owe. This has been going on since all of the cash was spent on Social Security and the politicians pork barrel projects. The politicians at the time, said that the money in the trust fund was so huge that it could never be spent. Just like the politicians of today.