Could Social Security reform follow health care?
By Lewis Diuguid, Kansas City Star Editorial Board Columnist The question was bound to come up. It surfaced at a Diversity Coalition discussion Wednesday night in Overland Park, Kan. Could Social Security reform and Medicare reform follow close behind efforts to reform health care? President Barack Obama gave a good speech on health care reform Wednesday night, showing he was not shrinking from the job despite forceful opposition on the issue. Social Security and Medicare certainly need help. Each is underfunded. Each soon will have more older people drawing from the government programs than they will have younger Americans feeding cash into them. But the very thought of the politicians doing anything to alter benefits that older people currently receive from Medicare and Social Security prompted an emphatic response from an older man at the meeting, who proudly wears the label of liberal. He said if people thought gun sales were unusually high now with some folks carrying firearms to
