Should Our Government Focus On Fixing Social Security, Before Taking On Cap And Trade And Health Care Reform?
Social Security is also facing long-term financial problems. The retirement program is projected to start paying out more money than it receives in 2016. Without changes, the retirement fund will be depleted in 2037, according to the Social Security trustees’ annual report this year.
President Barack Obama has said he would like tackle Social Security next year, after Congress finishes work on health care, climate change and new financial regulations.
Lawmakers are preoccupied by health care, making it difficult to address other tough issues. Advocates for older people hope their efforts will get a boost in October, when the Social Security Administration officially announces that there will not be an increase in benefits next year.
“I think a lot of seniors do not know what’s coming down the pike, and I believe that when they hear that, they’re going to be upset,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont who is working on a proposal for one-time payments for Social Security recipients.
“It is my view that seniors are going to need help this year, and it would not be acceptable for Congress to simply turn its back,” he said.
Why? The longer it waits, the more people die as they are denied preventative medical care, or die as the insurance schemes they pay into refuse to pay out.
FACT – Insurance companies in the USA admit to pushing up prices, buying politicians and not paying out claims when they should
FACT – PER PERSON the USA spends more on healthcare than any other nation on the planet
FACT – Obama debated his plans before the election for healthcare
FACT – the chance of a child under five of dying in the USA is greater than industrialised nations with universal health coverage
FACT – Obama was elected by the American people to bring in change
FACT – Obama wants to stop insurance companies from screwing the American people
FACT – The reforms Obama wants work in the Netherlands and Switzerland
In every country that has similar quality health care to ours (France, Japan, Sweden, England, Canada), etc., the cost of health care per person is LESS THAN one half the cost it is in the United States. Our health care system affects nearly 20% (or one out of every $5) of our economy. If we can reduce costs and maintain quality, it could save our country trillions of dollars. Therefore, if health care passes, it will be easier to address Social Security reform.
The government should be forced into repaying all they have stolen over the years they have been allowed to tap into it! It belongs to the people who have paid into it, not the government! Trillions of dollars have been stolen by whoever has been in office at the time, be it republican or democrat!!
they won’t fix social security because they milked all the power and control they are going to get out of it.
time to move on to bigger and better opportunities.
when social security becomes a “crisis”… well, they won’t let that go to waste either!
How do you fix a Ponzi scheme (social security)?
You don’t. You get rid of it. A lot of people are going to be SOL but it’s the only way.
Lets get Health care done. Social Security will be an even bigger controversy.
With the Obama crew in the White House how does any thing get fixed? There is no one remaining to tax!!!—–have a great day.
Frankly, I’ve sort of given up on the idea of “fixing things”.
I’m more or less waiting for it to collapse.
yeah
You have to fix them all together. Stabilize the workers so they know they will have insurance, stabilize the companies so they can bring jobs backwithout having to subsidize insurance for their workers, then attack social security.
Look, get real. I am almost retirement age and depending on the income, I was stupid and put retirement money in the idiot market and look where that got me!!. At least I didn’t get it twice like some of my friends, who went back in after the dot-com crash thinking it wouldn’t happen again and they lost everything twice and now we’re all too old to wait for it to “recover” again. My children, now in their twenties and thirties, are assuming that they will have to fund their own retirements and planning accordingly.
My only wish is that I, living where real estate taxes are around five thousand a year at the low end, could get more help than the guy living where real estate taxes are five hundred a year at the high end. That’s all.
health care is the easiest fix while social security can wait