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Reich: The Truth Behind the Social Security and Medicare Alarm Bells

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Social Security is a tiny problem. Medicare is a terrible one, but the problem is not really Medicare; it's quickly rising health-care costs. Look more closely and the real problem isn't even health-care costs; it's a system that pushes up costs by rewarding inefficiency, causing unbelievable waste, pushing over-medication, providing inadequate prevention, over-using emergency rooms, and spending billions on advertising

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The trustees of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds by Sister Begonia on Friday, May 15, 2009 at 2:37:27 PM
It's even funnier by Laudyms on Friday, May 15, 2009 at 4:02:46 PM