Needy Seniors or Greedy Geezers? -- Stossel In The Classroom

John Stossel investigates the viability and fairness of Medicare as the financial burden continues to increase on younger generations.

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[StosselClassroom]

Reposted [edit for lang. w/o permission] of OxbowisaMstie: Way to focus on the smallest% of seniors who use Medicare. The majority of seniors on Medicare cannot afford the ever increasing medical/pharm. expenses imposed on their fixed income and are forced on to Medicare part C or D (which is far less glamorous I assure you). Let's do away with Medicare instead of fixing it and make those freeloaders get a job. You don't BREAK your socialsafety nets when they no longer work, you FIX them.

[sleedolfine15]

" Who says life is fair " said the lady. I guess she does'nt care about her own grandchildrens.

[MaddDogg81]

don't the rich people pay alot of taxes anyway?

Tax them more

[jackiechan511]

The social security and medicare systems in the USA is just a legalized up-side-down pyramid scheme where there's not enough young people to support the mass numbers of elderly people. Eventually it will collapse.

[ANBUwarrior13]

If life is easy, you're doing it wrong. This is greed. >:P

[romeoneverdies]

@sleedolfine15

just points out how selfish this generation was whats whorse is the generation after me is even whorse!

[BellyButtonQuiz]

The elderly lady laughed and said going to doctor is her social life. IT WAS A JOKE. YET STOSSEL takes it LITERALLY .......... I'm not saying Stossel might not have a point here. But I heard him on Fox say the same thing, that seniors use medicare as a social life. It's a terrible, terrible thing to seriously accuse seniors of using going to doctor as social life. Maybe when Stossel turns 90 a light bulb will click on and he will finally get it.

[IndividualParties]

2:18

I wanted to punch out my screen when I she said "we deserve it." LOL, isn't she the one living in a $300,000 to $500,000 home?

[mateo3470]

@sleedolfine15

She probably doesn't have any. That would have limited her self-indulgence in life and had them work towards a meaning that isn't simply a personal lifestyle obsession but a better future for humanity. Luckily, spoiled children die out.

[OxbowisaMstie]

@StosselClassroom Permission granted, sorry for the potty mouth kidos!

[OxbowisaMstie]

@MaddDogg81 They pay far less in taxes than the average person. I agree tax them more and tax them responsibility. Roll back the Regan tax cuts!