US Federal Government spends too much.

[Rainman05]

You didn't relate the video on the US national debt to social security. Your "new perspective" was on debt, not on Social Security. You presented numerous facts, but they weren't "behind [your] statement" because you didn't make a statement; the video didn't make a (direct) statement on Social Security either. If you have an argument, make one. Showing facts and claiming they are evidence for a non-existent argument isn't on topic.

Yeah, sorry, late night comment.

Anyway. The statement is as follows.

1. the Fed government spends too much. 10 bil/day just to get by. Out of that, medicare and medicaid compose a large proportion. Can medicare be fixed? I am sure it can be fixed but not by Obamacare (or Obama for that matter). When you have trils $ in unfunded liabilities in both medicare and medicaid and social security, you need to rework the system, not nibble along the edges.

2. About social security. Yes, it is a mess. The way most European countries have dealt with social security is that they did, in fact, privatize it in a way. They gave people the option to buy into private social security, at their choice, and that will be deduced from the total tax that you pay into state social security. For instance, if you had to pay 5% of your income to social security/month, if you took on a private social security, you will only have to pay 2.5% to state social security and you could pay at least 2.5% into your private social pension. However... that is in Europe. I think that a decision to opt-out of state social security is the best option of the USA... and it is more plausible. Such an option will never be available in European countries for a long time... or at least it won't be popularized.

3. Strictly about medicare... obamacare is not universal healthcare. It is something different... it wants to be universal healthcare but it is more like an insurance scheme. It actually helps insurance companies make more customers. This is why their stock has risen at the prospect of obamacare going through.
Universal healthcare is symbiotic. It needs a lot of systems around it to make sure it can work. A proper educational system, a proper financial field... proper legislation... and a people with a good identity and strong morals. A people who are NOT divided but who are strong in any way you can think of. This is the difference between universal healthcare working in certain European countries and being a mess in others. It works well in France, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and others... it fails in Romania, Ukraine, Greece and others. Ofc, France may be considered to have the best healthcare system, but there are signs that show that with the increase in immigrants from africa, arabia and gypsies from all over Europe... it is now facing massive strains. Same in Sweden... but thankfully 20years of inept policy can't break what was built in a centuries so easily. In Eastern European countries, communism scarred the mentality and unity of the people thus, it crippled the possibility of other agencies to function properly... which in turns means that universal healthcare cannot function properly.
So back to the US. If the US wants universal healthcare, it needs to get other departments working properly first. Otherwise... it will fail. It won't be eastern european type fail... because the US is much, much richer than EE countries... but it will still fail.