Reply #112: i think raising the cap would help. plus negotiating drug prices. [View All]

single payer would be the best thing we could do, but no one will even discuss it. a 'public option' even giving folks the option to buy in to medicare (yes i know it isn't perfect) but it does have 3% overhead, and most people are healthy and do not use it and would probably buy into that because the reason they gave for why we shouldn't have a public option would be that the private companies wouldn't be able to compete. which is true. because they have a 20% overhead vs 3% overhead. IF people at least had the option to buy into medicare then it would help medicare. raising the cap would help social security. it is ridiculous that 106k is the most income that has to pay into social security. i agree that vouchers is just a way to give money to the insurance companies so they can NOT provide a service. uggh. but then again, we have to remember who the true constituents of our congress people are these days. seems if we could separate our 'representatives' from the moneyed interests maybe they would actually start doing their damned jobs again. how much of our deficit is related to that bs.