...it's been taken out of my salary for 45 years and now I am using the benefits.

and some people don't have to pay after 122,800 dollars, but those of us making less have to pay not only ours, but there's.............

you're ENTITLED to it.

I'm sure GOPers mean it as a slight, but we are entitled to it just like we are entitled to draw upon our bank account.

"Something that is given to you that someone else has to pay for". Basically that hard working Americans are being robbed to pay the lazy.

They say "entitlement" with derision. BTW, nothing wrong with "give-a-ways" for people that need help, if that's what someone once to call it.

What's ironic, I used to work for a state Medicaid program decades ago. The white wingers would apply when desperate for help (cancer, heart disease) and start telling you how they "are not like those undeserving people, blah, blah, blah." I swear, it was hard to keep from saying, "You are right, you aren't like Medicaid beneficiaries because your request is DENIED."

In the 80s conservatives, armed with papers written by conservative think tanks, would show their audiences big scary numbers about how much of the budget went to entitlements, and then go on to talk about Welfare.

They did this so the audience would infer that all of the big scary umbers went to Welfare -- and thus their hard-earned tax dollars going to a vast army of shiftless, lazy, undeserving you-know-whos -- because they never mentioned that by far the lion's share of the big scary numbers was Social Security and Medicare. Never mentioned it, because that wouldn't have fostered anger and racism in people they wanted to vote Republican. This was part of how conservatives diligently built what is now Trump's voter base.

This is also why people get noisy at Democrats who speak of "entitlement reform". It's a phrase RW think tanks cooked up as a pry bar to help them rip apart signature Democratic accomplishments, and treating it as if it were polite, neutral language just reframes the debate on their terms.

Low information people therefore think “entitlements” are bad, instead of thinking GOP-ers are bad for attacking entitlements

Same with social security!

We need to get control of Congress again and claw back the insane tax cut for billionaires that Bone Spurs gave them and start making the rich 1% and big business pay some damn taxes!

We need to stop yielding ground to the idiot Republicans on this language. I am Entitled to Medicare as a citizen or resident of the United States because that is part of the social contract delivered by the founding documents in the government's responsibility to "Promote the General Welfare". Plus, I pay into Medicare so not only am I entitled to its benefits JUST BECAUSE I am a citizen, I also have earned benefits.

People are ENTITLED to SSI, Medicaid, SNAP, and other poverty reduction programs as well. They are entitled to them because they are part of the social contract that We The People have made to be part of the civilized world.

Just because the bastard Republicans want to renege on that contract, doesn't mean we should help them by hiding from a word.

We are ALL ENTITLED to the benefits and the wealth that we have helped to produce in this country, even if we aren't the wealthy capitalists who are trying to keep them all to themselves.

the ability to govern.

That leaves the republican party out.

the road and we are going to end up in a crisis with GOPers in charge. Then, we'll get something like what they have done throttling the ACA.

The GOP's idea of "overhauling" Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security is always the same:

Get rid of them.

...fuck up everything so bad, that once Democrats regain power, they spend all their time trying to fix up everything they fucked up. Hence why it's so often damn tough to move things forward.

It's a clue Roy, get a grip.