Conservatives, would you like to end federal funding of Medicare and Medicaid?

No,,,the waste does need to be cut

You liberals like to promote your talking points and try to make them look like facts. Some of you do this because you realize the rest are too dumb to see through the fallacy. There is no working Conservative that has not paid into Medicare and Social Security. There is no working Conservative that wants to see the plans eliminated. How do you benefit from something that just gets shut off after you have paid into it all of your working life. At the same time as these programs are they are unsustainable. More people will be collecting than will be paying in. The problem can be corrected with a practical and doable actuarial solution and nobody has to give up everything. The Republican solution to the problem is better than no solution. That is the Democratic plan for it. Once again we reach the point where the Conservative believes what he sees and the liberal sees what he believe. The fact are there and it goes broke with no action. How is that better than the Republican plan? Hmm.

Yes.

But you don't turn it off like a light switch. Other plans have to be made, and people weaned from it.

PRWORA in 1994 didn't just shut down welfare. It provided a path towards other means.

Yes. Absolutely. And Social Security.

How about we end the government (both parties) "borrowing" (read stealing) money from Social Security so that Medicare and Medicaid would be fully funded with the monies that are supposed to be used to fund them, and so that I won't have to wait to retire until I am 75.

No, they're not government programs. Programs that are RUN by the federal government like HusseinCare and public education are what we really need to get rid of.

Absolutely.

They're the primary cause of inflation in health care costs.

When the government has bottomless pockets for paying for care, doctors take a clue and start raising prices as high as the market will bear.

The government is responsible for pricing a lot of poor people out of a necessary market.