On the recordMay 14, 2012
I am so pleased the Senator from Tennessee brought that up because there is a way for us to at least fix one of the entitlements in a relatively painless way, and that is Social Security. It is going to have a few changes that some people will not like, but it could be so gradual if we do it now. We could simply raise the age 3 months a year. In the bill I have proposed--and there are others that are equally as good, although none of them have been taken up--it would say: If you are 59 years old, you wouldn't have any change at all. If you are 58, you would retire 3 months later. So it would be very gradual. If we do that, and adjust the cost-of-living increase, we would not have to raise any social security taxes, we would not cut the core benefits at all, and we could gradually ease into a system that would be solvent for 75 years. Then our elderly, who need Social Security, will have it there. That is a proposal on the table now. But what is happening in Congress? And where is the leadership from the White House? Nothing. Nothing. I am going to turn to the Senator from Wyoming because he is one of the two actual physicians in the Senate, and he knows more about the Obama health care system.…
