Reply #28: they won't make outright cuts to SS [View All]

[Malva Zebrina]

they have already upped the premiums to Medicare over the past four years at the rate of 54%. That money is deducted from your SS check.

The majority of the people depending solely on SS, are poor elderly women.

If there is a catastrophic illness or accident requiring a lot of medical intervention, there will be lots of bills to pay that Medicare will not pay. If one cannot make those bills, and is forced to go on Medicaid, one's house and property will be confiscated in order to pay for those bills.

No matter what it means, no matter if it keeps you independant and out of nursing homes, no matter if you have lived in it for fifty years.

That is justice. :shrug:

I sense a perception that the young resent paying for the elderly-as if there is a direct hand over of their money to us and we do not deserve it because we get sick too much. We live in houses that they cannot now afford to buy. We are retired and worryless about striving to make it in today's world (although many seniors are forced to go back to work) After all, we have had the good fortune to have lived in what I think is the best years ever to live in this country before it started downhill and dammit that is just not fair.