Comments on: The Case For Not Privatizing Social Security http://www.ss.com/2009/the-case-for-not-privatizing-social-security/ Social Security & Retirement Information and Resources Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:45:04 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Brenda http://www.ss.com/2009/the-case-for-not-privatizing-social-security/comment-page-1/#comment-1764 Brenda Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:51:53 +0000 http://www.ss.com/?p=243#comment-1764 Abolish SS ?? I think not. There are so many elderly folks getting SS as their one income - what would happen to them - and the disabled that can't work and the mentally impaired folks - and the Medicare that all these people get would be lost - how would they get to see doctors or go in the hospital. No insurance company would insure them or if they did the premiums would be sky high. I agree SS should not be gambled with - but your solution is just as bad. Now SSI comes directly from taxpayers money as does medicaid - thousands of people live together and get those benefits as they don't notify the proper authorities that their income is now combined - Thousands get their medicine from medicaid and sell them on the street. Now which should be abolished?? SSI - a form of welfare OR SS - an insurance that workers paid into and were promised a retirement income in their older years or if they got hurt and could not work anymore.. Abolish SS ?? I think not. There are so many elderly folks getting SS as their one income – what would happen to them – and the disabled that can’t work and the mentally impaired folks – and the Medicare that all these people get would be lost – how would they get to see doctors or go in the hospital. No insurance company would insure them or if they did the premiums would be sky high.

I agree SS should not be gambled with – but your solution is just as bad. Now SSI comes directly from taxpayers money as does medicaid – thousands of people live together and get those benefits as they don’t notify the proper authorities that their income is now combined – Thousands get their medicine from medicaid and sell them on the street.

Now which should be abolished??

SSI – a form of welfare OR

SS – an insurance that workers paid into and were promised a retirement income in their older years or if they got hurt and could not work anymore..

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