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From: bwm@ccice2.UUCP (Brad Miller)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Social (In)Security
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Date: Wed, 23-Jan-85 13:31:54 EST
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Summary: 

You want to fix SS? Fine:
1) Make it voluntary.
2) Eliminate the COLA. Find any other investment with a COLA. Give me a break.
3) Eliminate the minimum payment. SS is insurance, not welfare. Separate the
welfare components and call it that so RR can cut it (with my support).
4) Eliminate heath subsidy (medicare) Why should I pay to keep someone alive
so I can pay them more substinance money. If you want health insurance, buy
it. Also, I find INCREDIBLY DISGUSTING that politicians are already talking
about how we are going to be able to afford the artificial heart so we can make
it available to those who could not otherwise afford it. Better:
5) Allow cheap (insert year here) level health care to those who cannot afford 
better. Only update care in the areas that are now cheaper. That is, if
I can extend the lifespan of someone a year for a million bucks, it doesn't
become free to those who can't afford it. If I can cure herpes for .25 instead
of $25, it does. That is, we can cut the budget, but not increase it.
This would allow hospitals to exist without all the latest equipment, but
then they wouldn't be charging you for it either. And if you can't afford
the best hospital, the guv isn't going to send you there and send me the
bill.

Brad Miller

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