Social Security and Medicare better be there when it comes time for me to retire. I paid into those systems since I started working as a teenager and I’m now 53. I think I contributed my share of things. It doesn’t matter if I need it or not. I still want it because it’s MY MONEY. It was taken from me and as a young NCO, my family had to do without because of that money wasn’t available to us….20 years ago military folks didn’t get paid as well as they do now.

The pisser is that if my wife and I were to die in an accident tomorrow, every penny we put into the system for the past 35 years would be lost since our children are all adults. Every stinking penny of my money the government would keep. That’s not right.

My parents are elderly. My dear Dad turned 78 on Flag Day, June 14th – he retired when he was 63 before things got ugly. My sweet Mom, God bless her soul is turned 74 years old this past March 26th and she is still working three days a week from 9-5. She has had this job for over twenty years and used to work five days a week, now as I said three. She cannot retire because the cost of medicine, gas, food, taxes on EVERYTHING are too high. My Dad used to do side jobs for the neighbors, but most have moved and times have changed.

I hate to think that my parents in their 70′s have to worry about what should be an after thought by their age. The golden years are supposed to be golden.

I HATE DC and its crappy POLITICS. They are all selfish PIGS!

My specific concern is two-fold. The first is the lack of transparency within the health care industry especially when any type of insurance comes in to play. Doctors have established a two-tier billing system–one tier for those with insurance and the other for those without. Doctor’s submit bills that are inflated to make sure that they get the maximum that medicare or insurance will pay.

The other concern is that when medicare funding goes down, doctors will increase service fees to private insurance and private pay customers.

The health care system in the US is broken and the smoke and mirrors method of charging patients based on their payment avenue has to be reformed.

We need someone to pass a law demanding a formal review of all government programs. Any program that is not performing according to its purpose and charter should be cut. They should be judged by their effectiveness and if found wanting then they are abolished. Programs that are actually working as intended will be allowed to continue. That right there should reduce government by 60% leaving plenty of money to pay down debt and restore our SS programs. Nobody has the gutts though.

It just could be that the best way to insure that the medicare fund is adequate is to use part of it to put a bounty on tort lawyers..at the very least when a doctor..or his insurance company wins a suit..the one losing should be made to pay the legal fees of the victor..

BZ