To the Editor,
I am writing to express my deep concern about House Republicans’ vote to end Medicare and cut benefits that hard-working seniors have earned.
This reckless privatization scheme is an insult to every hard-working America who has paid into Medicare. Especially in these challenging times when retired Americans rely on their Medicare benefits, Congress must do whatever it takes to protect this critical safety net.
Medicare belongs to the people who worked their whole life to pay into the system. It is not the government’s piggy bank to balance the budget on the backs of seniors.
Why should we ask our seniors to chose between paying the heating bill and seeing a doctor while Big Oil companies are free to keep their huge taxpayer funding?
Seniors, our children and grandchildren deserve better than an extreme plan that will take away seniors’ basic benefits. As voters, we must urge Congress to find a common-sense solution to ensure that Medicare is viable in the months, years and decades to come.
Gibson Gray
Lumberton
Future spending projections for Medicare are not sustainable and the program requires changes or there will be nothing for anybody regardless of age. Continuing to put your head in the sand with the Democrat leaders so they can hold on to a vote buying talking point is inexcusably irresponsible. The Republican proposal attempts to protect and preserves Medicare, not do away with it --with no disruptions -- for those currently in and near retirement and provides those now under the age of 55 with a strengthened, personalized Medicare program they can count on when they retire. So exactly how does this end Medicare for seniors? Sure, those of us under the age of 55 will have to live in a different system than the seniors do today....its obvious...the government has stolen all the money for other purposes. Presently, Medicare is a credit card with a huge limit and the country is borrowing on it with every doctor's visit. I would rather live within a different system than to have no system at all.
So perhaps it is time everyone to study what is really happening with the entitlement programs and realize they can't be sustained status quo. Stop trying to scare senior citizens as that song and dance has been played out for decades and everyone is tiring of it. We have a crisis on the horizon and someone has to demonstrate the responsibility of doing something about it other than preying on and scaring senior citizens.