Quote:It will never cease to astound me how conservatives vilify the poor for "being on the dole" and in the same breath defend the elderly on medicare, SS or w/e. Might be the first time I've heard someone refer to it the same way as they would the poor, most likely because the elderly is the conservative base.

 

One has to wonder that if the private insurance industry was not the primary source of funds for doctors etc... Would medicare be able to cover doctors more sufficiently?

 

I'm not a fan of Social Security myself to be honest.  I don't think we should really abolish it so much as replace it with something much better.  The system we currently have just doesn't work.  A lot of people pay into it, and then get nothing out of it when they need it.  I'm not for privatizing it, but it needs to be a better system.  

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