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R. Crider (not verified) says:
There was nothing wrong with the orginial Social Security Trust and later on Medicare! Social Security was fine until the Congress was allowed to dip into it! The orginial Medicare plan was fine..doctors and hospitals were given tax brakes to participate...and patients had no balance to pay for medical expenses! (and thus no need for a Medicare supplement..and insurance companies were paid to process the Medicare claims..now they are selling supplements AND getting paid to process Medicare claims).
Both Social Security and Medicare worked evenly across the board for EVERYBODY no matter how rich or poor!
As to "private retirement accounts"..what happened to those ORGINAL IRA accounts that one could invest their own money in and have a substantial retirement?
Sorry, I just can see that the fact that I have gotten 40 years older since these ORGINAL programs have been changed..to put ME at a finanical disadvantage is ALL my fault!!!
There was nothing wrong with the orginial Social Security Trust and later on Medicare! Social Security was fine until the Congress was allowed to dip into it! The orginial Medicare plan was fine..doctors and hospitals were given tax brakes to participate...and patients had no balance to pay for medical expenses! (and thus no need for a Medicare supplement..and insurance companies were paid to process the Medicare claims..now they are selling supplements AND getting paid to process Medicare claims).
Both Social Security and Medicare worked evenly across the board for EVERYBODY no matter how rich or poor!
As to "private retirement accounts"..what happened to those ORGINAL IRA accounts that one could invest their own money in and have a substantial retirement?
Sorry, I just can see that the fact that I have gotten 40 years older since these ORGINAL programs have been changed..to put ME at a finanical disadvantage is ALL my fault!!!