Off-Topic: Here's what the polls seem to suggest
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Here's what the polls seem to suggest
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1/8/2013 5:20:23 PM
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No doubt you paid and continue to pay into the program, but again the average user today paid in around around 1/3rd of the benefits they will receive which is a huge problem. That shortfall has to come from somewhere and right now it is being paid with either borrowed or newly printed money which is a pending train wreck. You know me, I think anything the federal government gets involved in will cost more than it needs to cost and I would prefer a solution that doesn't involve them although I don't have a ready made solution. But either way, all the proposals are geared toward those 55 and under because they will have time to adjust to the new reality.
As for Medicaid, it is specifically for the poor and indigent and I think would be ripe for a block grant. Tell the states they get $x from the federal government that can only be spent on health care for the poor. They can either make do with that money, raise taxes in their state if they want to provide more, be creative and innovative (as much as govt can) to better manage the program, etc. If a state wants to provide better Medicaid benefits to the poor by raising state taxes then have at it. The poor will flock there for the better benefits and the taxpayers will flee for more reasonable states and they will collapse under their own weight. There is a reason CA, NY, MA, IL and a number of other states are adamantly opposed to block grants and why a lot of states that are better managed are clamoring for that approach as long as they can implement the program as they please.
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