RobertCloud
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ORIGINAL: caitlyn
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ORIGINAL: ArgoGeorgia
You realize that most of the amount of money you put into the system you will never, EVER get back.
Actually, you have no way of knowing this, and no evidence to support it. If there is no evidence, it doesn't exist. Sadly this completely ruined all your other points ... it's a question of credibility. You look like someone promoting alarmist rhetoric.
caitlyn
I am a Social Security recipient for disability... Everytime I call into the help center I hear the same message and it always says that what most people do not know is that there is NO social security fund. That the money being paid into Social Security TODAY goes to make the payments to the recipients TODAY, and that at the current rate of increase in the numbers going onto Social Security that the system will not be able to support the need in the years to come.
He is right. The money you have paid in will not be there when you are ready to use it for it is being used now. It is not alarmist rhetoric, but fact that the Social Security Administration tells every person that calls into their centers even now while you are on hold.
Another person made a comment that BASIC HEALTH CARE was already a right. This is not true.
There are many people that need basic medications to survive, without them they will die, and yet the pharmaceutical companies have made these drugs so expensive that someone on a fixed income cannot afford to pay the $400 to thousands of dollars each month for their medications. Well, you are saying, you have Medicare to help... Yes, but Medicare has this new policy that once the combined total expense that you and the insurance company have spent (or actual cost) have reached a certain level then the person has to pay 100% of their cost for the next $3500 dollars. That means in some people's situations that after only a couple of months they must suddenly come up with an additional $750 to a couple of thousand dollars to buy their medications on top of their other expenses before the insurance picks back up. Most cannot afford to do that, some will have to suddenly stop their medications and in some cases, if the person goes to a clinic, samples will not even be available to help spread the cost out, there are many medications that if you suddenly drop them the side effects include seizures, coma, death.
Yet, you cannot go to the hospital for this, all they will do is write a prescription that the patient cannot afford, and the patient will simply wind up dying in pain.
This is a serious problem. So you are saying seek help from Medicaid... That is a joke too, Medicaid won't help most of these people because the maximum that a couple can make and receive Medicaid is well below even the Federal standard for poverty. Most people that receive Social Security Benefits for more than one individual in a household will not qualify for Medicaid.
I have spent three months seeking assistance, and the best chance is still slim, Montel Williams has a plan that may help, but even that is only a slim chance...
So do I feel that there needs to be a National Healthcare Program? NO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do I think the current plans in force need to be re-examined and changed and set up on a more federally standardized level? Yes!
And I think these plans could easily be funded from current taxes without raising taxes if the current administration would get out of an unpopular war and stop siphoning funds away from the Medicare System as they currently are doing. Also redirecting funds from some of the other things that are non-essential programs toward these more essential programs. A freeze on all raises to all Senators and Congressmen for 4 years with those expected funds going toward Healthcare. All transportation cost for all government officials to be partially the government officials' responsibility instead of fully taxpayers' responsibility. One less secret service agent for each of the higher ranking individuals. And combine some of the redundant bureaus, do we really need an FBI, a CIA, and NSA and a Department of Homeland Security, and I am certain there is one or two more that are redundant in there.
As well as Military... Do we really still need an Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard. Why not combine one or two of them and save the funds and put it to better usage.
Okay.. done with my rant as well.
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