[Ipg-smz] Medicare

[Christine Hall]

This is getting political, but that's not true. Social security fell 
apart when the funds kept being used to fund other services.

Christine Hall
Publisher & Editor
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On 6/26/19 9:43 AM, Stephen Satchell wrote:
> On 6/25/19 8:04 PM, Kishore Jethanandani wrote:
>> This idea of universal care or Medicare-for-all is such baloney--a myth
>> waiting to be busted.
> 
> One size does NOT fit all.  In some respects, we have baked
> communisism/socialism into government institutions with the idea that
> "if you make more, you can pay more" instead of charging a flat fee
> (tax) for services.  Social Security went further -- it was a Ponzi
> scheme that fell apart when the Baby Boomers came of retirement age on
> one hand, and the raiding of the trust fund by Congress on the other.
> 
> Reminds me of unions and pension funds -- "the money was just sitting
> there."
> 
> Minimum wage?  What a bad idea.  How about "minimum profit
> participation" instead?
>