While you poor impoverished Villages are busy whining about your getting back every nickel you paid in to Soc Sec over the years, please be sure to calculate the cost of the disability insurance you have gotten for free for your entire working life. And the cost of the insurance for several disorders and illnesses provided to your children for their lives, and the value of the ability for your spouse to collect on your earnings not only during your life but after your death.
While whining about the amount you paid for Medicare. When you paid in there were no immunotherapy drugs, there were no MRI scans or heart transplants or surviving cancer other than briefly. There was no drug benefit, there was no stem cell treatment, there was almost no joint replacement.
And you paid at a rate based on the cost of medicine at the time, not what it costs now
So quit whining and be very grateful that Medicare was passed by LBJ, was improved by subsequent administrations.
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Men plug the dikes of their most needed beliefs with whatever mud they can find. - Clifford Geertz
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