What will people with disabilities do when Social Security and Medicare runs out?

I think these are scare tactics. I don't believe we will run out of money as the baby boomer generation will have maxed out by then and the older population will begin to lessen. People are working longer and contributing greater amounts to social security.

Before 2017 I dearly hope we will no longer have medicaid and medicare and will have discovered a new and more equitable way to support the elderly and people with disabilities who require health care.

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As a result of the Aussie federal budget last night the retirement age has been lifted from 65 to 67 to be fazed in over the next few years. This is to help pay back all the money given out in the stimulus packages. Not everyone received the payments but we now have an estimated debt of $9000 per person adult & child to be paid back. Please correct me if I'm wrong on that one.

As for how to support the disabled those that can work should look at doing so. So they can say they support themselves. There will be a lot of disabled people who already have a job or are looking. What needs to happen is for the employers to give them a far go & not say "I'm not hiring anyone who is disabled" There are differing degrees of disablement & bosses should take that into consideration.

I have an intellectually impaired daughter that will be able to work so I will be encouraging her to find work when the time comes. She will be able to say with pride that she makes her own money. I will still be there to support her whatever happens & if that means I have to work 2 jobs to do it then I will.

Should start checking out the models other nations (not having SS, Medicare, Medicaid) go about this. Probably a new model combining these ideas suitable to our nation could be worked out.

Those retired and expected to live beyond 2017, have already paid for the previous generations. They may be facing a harsh reality when the time comes, but they deserve some empathy.

Congress needs to do a full 360* turn-around from the legislation that ruined Social Security soon after it's inception. Originally, it was INDEPENDENT of Uncle Sam, but once some greedy congressmen got wind of it, they decided to use it to fund their own agenda's.

As far as folks depending upon Social and Medicare now, I would look for independent self-insurance (although that is small consolation). In my situation, I'm 50, hubby is 100% disabled at 40 with SSDI and Medicare. Because we are married, he is on my insurance, so the Medicare problem is at least not critical for us. When it comes to his SSDI, if he loses that, then we will lose our home. That's it cut & dry.

So, my two jobs now won't do much. It means I'll have to find a THIRD means of income to help when his SSDI suddenly disappears. I just am so fed up with the FED. Really. Horrible economics being exercised since the Clintons got into office and the Republicans forgot their "roots" of conservative economics. I'm sick of having poor decisions by others being paid by my sweat.

Pray on it. Call your congressman (bug him/her!) light a fire under their rear to get some changes toward Conservative Ethics and away from Social Totalitarianism full-government control that is happening right now as we breathe. It's very frightening!

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Call the social security office and ask them when does your medical coverage start. It should start immediately but you are in US and I am in Canada. Take care Heather

Im on SSDI. Amputee, wheelchair bound, COPD and other problems from a traumatic car accident. I just hope i dont live to see it. Hard enough to survive now.

That's why I'm trying to get a job through Ticket-to-Work now, & I hope to be very well into my career field.

Maybe by that time people like you who assume peoople with disabilities can't do anything but subsist off of Social Security will quit discriminating against us so we can get jobs and earn our ownliving.

Your assumption that "survival of the fittest" rles us out shows your bigotry and ignorance. In my own case, I have multiple graduate degrees and run my own business--which I started because people like you assumed that the fact I was blind made me "unfit" for their precisous paychecks or to survive.

We will still have ss cuz we have it deducted from our paychecks and if your able u might think about getting a 401K