The first step to rein in out of control costs.
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What does he think an individual health insurance policy for a 68 year old would cost? He is nuts.
Raising the eligibility age is not a viable answer.
Services must be reduced. Some way. Some how. The system is not good at finding it, but there is a lot of greed and waste still in the system.
I don’t think you can reduce services. Certainly, there is a lot of wasted dollars that can be monitored better but how about shifting some of the money from social security to medicare. 6.2% of the first 102,000 you earn goes into the social security fund. 1.45% of all earnings you make goes into the medicare fund. What if the social security cap of 102,000 was either raised considerably of there was no cap and some of those funds were shifted to Medicare.
Why should a person earning less than 102,000 pay 7.65% of every dollar they earn into social security/medicare and someone making more than 102,000 pay less of a percentage.
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