Reply #56: $240 Billion (175+65) removed from Social Security and Medicare! [View All]

[ThomCat]

So, after creating a $240 Billion hole in the social security and medicare budgets, are they going to argue that both of those programs are insolvent and need to be privatized?

This is being paying for with the blood of seniors and people with disabilities. Don't forget that.

They are already talking about pushing back the eligibility age, denying millions of people access to these services. A loss of this much money will also give them political justifications to deny cost of living adjustments, and change the formulas so that people on social security get less money and live in even more desperate poverty. They will be able to cut reimbursement rates for medical services, and cut more services from the list of what services they'll pay for.

But these are people's lives we're talking about. This people's rent, and food budgets. This health care people with disabilities need in order to live. This is health care that prevents people from suffering.

I wonder if they realize how much damage they are going to be causing. I wonder if they care. :(