If you are against handouts and welfare...?

DAD says he will one day be a bajillionair and I will has plenties of money for my health. Dad says I can get frozed and then unfrozed in the future if i want to becouse he will have that many bajillions of dollars. Plus I am going to be astronot

Medicare is almost bankrupt. Look it up.

It costs the taxpayers an enormous amount of money, but most people do not understand this because the top 25% of wage earners pay most of the budget. No wonder you could care less. You have no idea what it feels like to succeed and have it all taken away.

No, it's not the same thing. My wife and I have been turned down for Medicaid (several times)...I'm 53, she's 77, and guess what, we're white and don't speak Spanish, either. You guessed it, we were turned down for Medicaid assistance. I have been recently approved for Medicare. I have had 10 abdominal surgeries in 8 years, 7 within the past 2 years, and 2 within the month of June 2009. I am clearly disabled, and am entitled to my medicare benefits that I worked for all my life.

do you know the definition of medicare?

•health care for the aged; a federally administered system of health insurance available to persons aged 65 and over

Welfare and health care for the old are two totally different things!

Medicare is paid for by our tax dollars withheld asa we work, same as ss, I'm 62 and have paid a lot of ss taxes, yet the government cant even manage that right as you still need supplemental insurance

Wow. on a similar time as I agree that there are a number of that abuse the welfare device and there desires to be extra administration over it, what you fail to attain is that some on welfare ARE military vets! Why are they on it because of the fact while they're no longer interior the army this government does not supply a crap approximately them. do you be attentive to what share vets have had their dwelling house foreclosed on on a similar time as they have been serving? do you be attentive to what share Vets won't be able to detect a job as quickly as they're out? Do you additionally be attentive to all people who has served? i be attentive to many and besides the actuality that they are fortunate and have not had to matter on welfare, they are able to permit you be attentive to memories of a lot of human beings they be attentive to who've had to apply it. some are Libs and a few are Cons

medicare is for the elderly and handicapped and we should take care of the helpless like them...its not for trailer park and ghetto trash that's young enough to fend for themselves.

hmmmm looks like my values are still consistent.......take care of those who "truly" need the help......

I do believe however that medical coverage should be part of unemployment benefits.........that should be fixed. When people lose their jobs they lose their health insurance.....that's not right.

It should not be for those who make a lifestyle chioce of welfare or for people who are in the country illegally!

edit....Patches...I like your idea!

I'll make a deal, sport. I'll give up my claim to Medicare, but in return I get back the 1.45% tax I've paid in all of these years. Do we have a deal? Oh, and I will also gladly make the same deal for Social Security. Deal on that one as well?

Didn't think so. Next straw man please, and make it a good one next time.

I actually don't support medicare of social security for that matter.

I base my financial planning on neither existing when I retire. If they are there, you damn well bet I will use them since I am forced to pay for it, but I am not going to count on it being there either.

what is the alternative ? let all the elderly rot on the streets ? if you had it your way, then that's exactly what would happen. these people have paid in their entirely lives with the assumption that they would be taken care of when the time came. they are entitled to their money.