Will Social Security Available For Today's Senior Citizens

Issues important to senior citizens have continued to achieve little public attention as the nation focuses on the war against terrorism and a weak economy but the public still strongly favors action on prescription drug coverage by Medicare and Social Security reform, according to a recent Gallup poll for CNN and USA Today.

Overall, Americans are supportive of President Bush’s policy goals -- 73% believe they will move the country in the right direction and only 19% think they will move the United States in the wrong direction, according to the Jan. 25-27 CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll.

In general, strong majorities of the public favor Bush’s specific proposals, more so on his foreign policy objectives than his domestic policy objectives.

Gallup reports the following attitudes on senior issues. Give seniors a Medicare system that includes coverage for prescription drugs.

Most Americans support the idea of expanding Medicare to include coverage of prescription drugs, but on this issue, they are far more likely to trust the Democratic Party than the Republican Party.

Seventy-three percent of Americans think it is important for the president and Congress to provide prescription drugs for older Americans.

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By a margin of 56% to 32%, Americans are much more likely to think that the Democratic Party would do a better job of dealing with the issue than the Republican Party [Jan. 11-14].

An April 2000 Gallup poll showed that a majority (57%) favored the expansion of Medicare coverage to provide prescription drugs as an additional entitlement for senior citizens in the program, while just 26% favored a business-incentive program that Bush has proposed in the past. Only 12% thought that no changes . . . read the full article