{"id":567,"date":"2013-07-10T16:10:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T16:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/?p=567"},"modified":"2013-07-10T16:10:47","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T16:10:47","slug":"trustees-report-on-social-security-and-medicare-trust-funds-for-2013-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/2013\/07\/10\/trustees-report-on-social-security-and-medicare-trust-funds-for-2013-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trustees Report on Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds for 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The report is out with much the same problems noted.\u00a0 When are the President and Congress going to act?\u00a0 The Social Security Disability Fund will be bankrupt by 2016 unless legislation is passed.\u00a0 It is totally unfair to have my retirement benefits cut because the Social Security Disability Fund is bankrupt but that is one proposal from the Administration.\u00a0 Why not review the recipients again as required by law?\u00a0 Many of these recipients are not disabled but judged to have back problems and depression.\u00a0 Many back problems can be treated with exercise, alternative therapies, and drugs.\u00a0 Many depressives can be treated with exercise, counseling, and drugs.\u00a0 The program is being scammed by recipients, too helpful doctors, states such as Oregon and Washington, and consultants who receive $2,000 to $3,000 by converting Medicaid recipients to Disability recipients.\u00a0 No wonder the program is bankrupt!\u00a0 I ask your support in demanding immediate action by the President and the Congress to save the Social Security Disability Fund from bankruptcy and to put the two other critical trust funds on a stable path.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Allen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The report is out with much the same problems noted.\u00a0 When are the President and Congress going to act?\u00a0 The Social Security Disability Fund will be bankrupt by 2016 unless legislation is passed.\u00a0 It is totally unfair to have my retirement benefits cut because the Social Security Disability Fund is bankrupt but that is one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570,"href":"https:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions\/570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}