Entitlements: Social Security, Medicare Medicaid

Alison Fraser of The Heritage Foundation discusses how mandatory spending on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid will increase significantly as baby boomers retire and health care costs rise.

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• entitlements
• entitlement spending
• Social Security
• Medicare
• Medicaid
• health care
• boomers
• baby boomers

[Lllburns]

How can these people call themselves "Christians" ?

YOU WOULD MAKE JESUS PUKE !!!

Paying no attention to the tax loopholes and corruption of the filthy filthy rich and huge corporations.

And screwing over GRANDMA to pay for it.

SATANIC ECONOMICS !!!

Taking your little knife to people who need social services the most, and catering to the excess and greed over the Koch brothers.

Screw over Grandma cause Ruprt Murdoch's gonna need some more private jets this year.

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[lolololoolllool]

I agree with those who question the term entitlement when it comes to taxpayer-funded programs such as Social Security and Medicare. I invested 45 years in Social Security, and decades into Medicare. Just because the politicians screwed up the Medicare bidding process, and stole my money out of the Social Security trust fund doesn't give these wealthy-protector Republicans the right to tell me I have to live under a bridge in my retirement years.

[mpg827]

Seeing I'm a senior citizen and educated and literate I really know that Social Security and Medicare were and are paid for and not an entitlement like welfare for some cracked up, knocked up, ethnic mother of an anchor baby!!!!!!!!!

[CommonSenseCap]

@cpmondello :

You are right. We are going to have twice as many seniors and costs are going to stay the same.  We should just do nothing. Oh, I'm sorry, we should add 16 to 32 million more people to this entitlement program.

Yeah, that's how we cut costs.

[stopfederalism08]

i wish i could opt out of social security and medicaid, i dont need the government to take care of me i am confident i will have the capability and the forsight to provide for myself in my later years

[cpmondello]

Heritage is such a joke, much like FOX

[dustycajungirl]

The government stole our money that is why it is empty and now they want to tax us to death.

[TheRealArchAngel]

Where did it go?

Social Security fund was raided by congress long ago and now all taxes from FICA,SS,and Medicade gogoes directly into congress' checkbook

It's why they weren't too keen on the last presidents Idea to make SS like a IRA..it would take the money away from them and out of their control

Moneywsie $!1 is worth $1 with government no matter how much of it is printed, is worth $1 in US but is only 1/2 cent against the gold standard and dropping against other currency

[FrancescaGianna]

Every American paid into these taxes for years. Where did all the money go? Hmmmm?