Privatizing Social Security, raising the retirement age, and throwing Medicare subscribers onto the open market are all bad ideas, says U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), and they’re ideas he says his opponent, State Sen. Jim Oberweis (R-Sugar Grove), endorses.
A voucher system would “turn seniors loose to the mercies of health insurance companies,” Durbin says.
Working until 72, Durbin says, might be all right if you are, say, a senator or a business executive; for a waitress or coal miner, not so much.
Durbin also is afraid more and more Social Security recipients are actually living in poverty.