We have paid into social security and medicare for years. We are retired now. We knew from the start we could never live off of social security, so we are not depended on it. However, we are forced to take medicare or be penalized for not using it. If we didn’t take it at age 65 we would have to pay a higher monthly payment for it. It is bad enough they take it from out social security. But that is the way it works. That payment goes up higher for each year you do not take it. I really do believe there will come a time when people will not be able to get it though they are paying into it. They have been stealing from both social security and medicare for many years. They will never pay that money back. Though it was not theirs to take to balance the government budget. I say hang them all. Our government is nothing more than a bunch of greedy morons. Stealing from it’s citizens to line their pockets.
