Reply #31: Read the report itself. And take a deep breath before yelling through your

[flamin lib]

keyboard again. There is an exemption for those who cannot continue to work for reasons that do not rise to the level of a disability, for instance construction workers or manual laborers who can not perform their jobs past 62; this exemption actually lowers the age for full benefits. Lawyers, doctors, accountants and other white coller professionals can work to 69 with no problem and many probably won't need SS anyway.

None of your dire predictions are in the report. There is a shift of first dollar coverage to medigap insurance providers which, worst case, might increase deductibles but nothing about increasing premiums.

I find it highly amusing that the very same liberals that want to decrease the income divide bitch and moan when the method of doing so might impact them.