Senior Citizens vs. the Tea Party Will Be a GOP Problem

If I hear that Social security is an entitlement program one more time, I'll throw up. I have paid into that program for 56 years and if I invested that money into very average stocks and bonds, it would be worth approximately 1.26million by now. I will have to live to 96 just to break even. I have also been paying into medicare since it started and pay monthly fes for certain parts of it.

I do think that they should slowly raise the full retirement age and remove the cap on earnings so that the system will be solvent for our future generations.

I also took a beating on my fees from medicare while in medical practice. I can assure you they do not overpay primary care docs. A number of years ago I sent in a bill for about 18 grand and received a check from the feds for 3800 bucks. This is quite common in the health care arena. When the government was not involved in our health care, the insurers paid what we billed and there was always time and money to provide free care for those who needed it. Now with the insanely high paperwork requirements and crappy reimbursements, there is room for nothing. Keep it up and no one will go into medicine in the future.

DrJoel1 of OH 3:53PM November 11, 2010