Disturbing

The news has been issued that Medicare will be insolvent in 2019. Insolvent. No $. A complete stop. Broken.

I will be 68 and on Medicare, hopefully with supplemental coverage.

Will I have access to additional coverage?

What will be there for our children and grandchildren?

If it is that broken, why haven't the brains in Washington come up with a fix, a real fix?

The government has set itself up as the end-all. The answer to all of life's problems. Big government will have to become bigger to serve us all in the manner in which we have grown accustomed. Government is the parent and guardian. I would say the over indulgent parent anxious to keep us all dependent.

Is it time for us to grow up and take care of ourselves?

Bob and I will continue to save as much $ as we can to cover our health needs ahead. We, like everyone else, pay in 1.45% to Medicare and 6.2% to Social Security. We are a corporation so we pay in the match as well. That's 15.3% of the earnings from our business toward programs that are broken and quickly headed to bust! $ down a rat hole.

How do we reteach generations of dependent citizens? Is the pioneering self-sufficient spirit attainable? Or only a mirage covered in our history books?

'til later