04-05-2013, 12:48 PM
Let's establish two facts before we get any further.
1.) Social Security is not broken. What's broken is that Congress has borrowed the surplus to fund its other programs (as it does with every bond ever sold), and now does not want to pay back what it borrowed.
2.) Medicare is the lowest overhead health program in the country. If you want to meet a goal (healthcare for the elderly and chronically infirm) in the most efficient way, you got it.
You may continue.
1.) Social Security is not broken. What's broken is that Congress has borrowed the surplus to fund its other programs (as it does with every bond ever sold), and now does not want to pay back what it borrowed.
2.) Medicare is the lowest overhead health program in the country. If you want to meet a goal (healthcare for the elderly and chronically infirm) in the most efficient way, you got it.
You may continue.