Comments on: Social Security Cost of Living Adjustments (since 1975) http://perotcharts.com/2008/11/social-security-cost-of-living-adjustments-since-1975/ Charting Government Fiscal Irresponsibility Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:36:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: rt50609 http://perotcharts.com/2008/11/social-security-cost-of-living-adjustments-since-1975/comment-page-1/#comment-1023 rt50609 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:02:08 +0000 http://perotcharts.com/?p=158#comment-1023 J0hnny175, I know this takes the discussion away from social security. But your idea takes the payment of medical even further away from the person receiving medical care. It sounds good to have both the government and private insurance paying for medical coverage, but that money has to come from somewhere. The primary problem with our healthcare system is that we spend more money on medical care than we have. Howard Dean of all people came out and said such here (http://www.reason.com/blog/show/130609.html). People are going to have to be responsible for their healthcare otherwise we are going to bankrupt our country trying not to be the bad guys. The worse part of what we are doing now is passing our bills (including medical bills) to the next generation which will in effect have to pay for our medical bills, and worry about their own. So I see two main things needing to be done. One, we need to determine how much we are willing to spend on our healthcare and how we are going to raise the money. Two, we need an unending push to do everything we can to make healthcare cheaper and more efficient. Last note, the best way to make something inefficient is to get the government involved. The second best way is to get a large corporation involved. J0hnny175, I know this takes the discussion away from social security. But your idea takes the payment of medical even further away from the person receiving medical care. It sounds good to have both the government and private insurance paying for medical coverage, but that money has to come from somewhere.

The primary problem with our healthcare system is that we spend more money on medical care than we have. Howard Dean of all people came out and said such here (http://www.reason.com/blog/show/130609.html). People are going to have to be responsible for their healthcare otherwise we are going to bankrupt our country trying not to be the bad guys. The worse part of what we are doing now is passing our bills (including medical bills) to the next generation which will in effect have to pay for our medical bills, and worry about their own.

So I see two main things needing to be done. One, we need to determine how much we are willing to spend on our healthcare and how we are going to raise the money. Two, we need an unending push to do everything we can to make healthcare cheaper and more efficient.

Last note, the best way to make something inefficient is to get the government involved. The second best way is to get a large corporation involved.

]]> By: J0hnny175 http://perotcharts.com/2008/11/social-security-cost-of-living-adjustments-since-1975/comment-page-1/#comment-1019 J0hnny175 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:01:39 +0000 http://perotcharts.com/?p=158#comment-1019 seems to me that social security has been holding steady,but medicare and medicaid keep rising. there seems to be a need for a national health care program which could be partly funded by a sliding payment schedule and a prescription program that realy works and a health program with 2 or 3 payment levels were gov. payment and private insurance payment could be incorparated so that both could work hand and hand that way people who want private insurance would pay for it and another payment schedule for the gov. funded ins. at another rate why not have it that way so that everyone would be covered and the doctors and hospitals could take either or both as we are doing anyway but move up the payments given to the docs. and hosp. by medicare and mediciad with out all the paper work seems to me that social security has been holding steady,but medicare and medicaid keep rising. there seems to be a need for a national health care program which could be partly funded by a sliding payment schedule and a prescription program that realy works and a health program with 2 or 3 payment levels were gov. payment and private insurance payment could be incorparated so that both could work hand and hand that way people who want private insurance would pay for it and another payment schedule for the gov. funded ins. at another rate why not have it that way so that everyone would be covered and the doctors and hospitals could take either or both as we are doing anyway but move up the payments given to the docs. and hosp. by medicare and mediciad with out all the paper work

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