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spooky3

(34,447 posts)
Tue Mar 12, 2013, 10:55 PM Mar 2013

"Entitlement reforms" that I can support.

1) Do not pay Social Security retirement benefits to people like Ann Romney, who are very wealthy AND who have never paid into it (to my knowledge) but currently can receive relatively large benefits based on their spouses' contributions. Her spouse did not pay more than unmarried people with the same wage and salary income all those years. What is the rationale for using the payments of people who earned minimum wages (etc.) over the years to provide very rich AND non-working spouses a "safety net"?

2) Allow Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices with Big Pharma. We are currently paying far more than our counterparts in Canada, Germany, and France, to whom Big Pharma is still more than happy to sell, so they are obviously making plenty of money.

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