Medicare and Social Security

or just Medicare.

[Robert Samuelson, Wrong Again | Beat the Press]

"... The main source of the country's projected long-term budget problems is Medicare and Medicaid. The costs of these programs is driven by our broken health care system. We pay more than twice as much per person for health care in the United States as people in other wealthy countries with little to show in the way of outcomes.

This is not a problem of seniors getting too much in benefits. It is a problem of paying too much for the health care that they and others receive. The answer to this problem is to fix the health care system, not to deny care for seniors. ..."

Fix the health care market and a lot of our fiscal problems go away. So,.... just extend Medicare/Medicaid to everyone and take the insurance companies out of the picture. Health care problem solved.

tnb