has social security and medicare increased or decreased the quality of life for seniors?

[Spike]

or answer these instead:

did conservatives support social security and medicare?
did liberals support social security and medicare?

why did bush try to privatize social security?
when the stock markets crashed last year, would a "privatized social security" have crashed with it?
Bob ...or maybe citizens such as yourself should secede start your own country.

[Hybrid Moments]

They did want to privatize social security that would basically cut off all the people who are on it right now it would be like "pulling the plug on Granny"

[Fearlesscable179]

Is Social Security going bankrupt?

Is Medicare already bankrupt?

How bout you solve those two Little issues.

The fact is... If I put the same 12% of my income that i put into social security into a private account. I would retire a multi millionaire and so would the vast majority of everyone else.

Do you have a tangible account in social security? No you dont. You have no idea where any of the money you have paid in is. Are you growing interest on it? no. Another fact. You have to live 20 years after the age of 65 to ever break even through social security.

[Cherry]

These programs have most certainly helped seniors. I believe they were liberal programs that republicans were VERY much against.

[wunofdamoronbros]

The privatization of social security is a misnomer.
It would have been an option to invest part (a very small part) of their social security withholding into a private investment. No one could have invested ALL of the FICA.
Again, it would have been an option. The choice of each individual on SS.
Some in Washington played it out as though it would have been required if passed, but that was not true. It was simply their argument to defeat the proposal.
The reason past presidents have tried to change it? The system is in trouble, and it needs to be changed somehow.

[Bob]

The question you need to answer is why do you expect to spend my money, just so you can feel better about yourself? I propose that all the liberal minded people in this country that want the government to support everyone financially, should pool their own personal monies for distribution to the "less fortunate" and lower you own standard of living first.