Ads are hitting the airwaves stating that Congress wants to cut Medicare payments to hospitals. Medicare was a gift. There was nothing in the original SS legislation that applied any of your earnings to medical care. That was a gift from another Congress in another time. Why do I call it a gift? Because those who passed it at the time knew it wasn’t and couldn’t be supported by earnings contributions that were already overextended. They did it for electability.
I understand that and retirees should too. What you also need to understand is that Medicare could be manageable. It could be feasible for us to support Medicare IF (and that’s a big if) we did not have to support every whiner in the world with Medicaid. That’s where the little ditty of an ad veers off course. At the end of the ad Medicaid rears it’s ugly head.
In America we support non earners (those who don’t or can’t work) with an income. Then we give them food stamps so they can eat. Then we give them subsidized housing so they don’t have to live in boxes. Then we not only meet their basic medical needs we provide them with medical care that many wage earning taxpayers cannot afford.
If that’s not enough we also give these benefits to anyone who comes into this nation legally or illegally until they get on their feet. Unfortunately the system is too big and no one can actually keep track of who truly deserves help and who doesn’t. It is a common practice for illegals to work off the books or for low wages and still be supplemented with all these gifts. Where does the money come from? IT CAME FROM THE FUNDS YOU PAID INTO SS UNTIL THAT WAS ALL GONE THEN IT WAS BORROWED.
Those who support taking care of our elderly as I do get disgusted when Medicaid is lumped in with Medicare. But remember Medicare is a gift. You never paid for it. All you paid for was a Social Security check every month when you reached retirement.
BUT (and this is a big but) that’s not the only thing that is bleeding dry the funds we could be funneling into Medicare to care for the twilight years of our elderly. Get on the SSI bandwagon. Do you think anything was paid into any fund to support anyone with a disability? No. Do you think anything was paid into any fund to support survivor benefits? No. Please do the math. There is no way that a man who dies at thirty years old has paid enough into his social security account to provide $400 a month for his 2 and 4 year old until they turn 18. It’s a gift from some distant congress who wanted to get re-elected.
What is going unspoken in these ads is that Medicaid doesn’t stand a snowballs chance in hell of getting any support so they lump it in with Medicare because it’s a big lobby.
We can support our seniors. We can’t support every Tom, Dick and Harry who wants a free ride. Hospitals and Doctors and insurance companies cannot tote the load. The Republic is broke and has about reached it’s borrowing limit. Stop Medicaid. Stop disability payments and Seniors stop allowing advertisers to lump you in with a corrupt system.
Lift the maximum earnings limit and get rid of the Medicaid freeloaders and seniors won’t have to worry about benefits being cut.
