----- MEDICARE PREMIUM INCREASE
For those of you who are on Medicare, read the article below. It's a short but important that you probably haven't heard about in the mainstream news.
They will RAISE the monthly price per person as scheduled by Obama's Plan.
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Annual cost per person
2011 $1157
2012 $1250
2013 $1442
2014 $4548 that is nine grand plus
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Bob,also seniors such as yourself and millions more ar in for a rude awakening when it comes to medicare for seniors.There is NO Medicare benefit for long term care, nor has there ever been one. This is a common misconception among American seniors but one would hope that the Chief Executive of the United States, and thus the Medicare program, would be better informed.
Pock, you just recently spent what a week or more in the hospital right? Did you know that if you would have gone from the hospital directly to a nursing home, that Obama's medicare would only cover the full tab for only 20 days. A longer stay requires re-hospitalization or certain other qualifiers but under no circumstances is this an open-ended program. In most cases, after day 20 the patient begins to assume the costs up to $128.00 per day from day 21 through day 100. Beyond day 100, guess what, Zero's medicare that the full expense rests on the financial shoulders of the patient and the patient's family and their personal insurance resources. The only way ANY patient will qualify for free nursing home care from that point on is under state-operated MEDICAID programs.
Listen closely: there is NO Medicare benefit for long term care, nor has there ever been one.
The Republicans want to break the Medicare covenant we’ve had in place since 1965.
The covenant is simple and fair. Americans work all their lives, pay their taxes, provide for their families, and then get to retire with dignity. Medicare provides us with medical care in our later years, after we’ve paid for it all our lives through taxes.
Now Republicans want to take away Medicare’s guarantee of care from anyone who turns 65 more than ten years from now. And they aren’t even doing it to pay down the deficit (it wouldn’t help much anyway). Because, according to the Congressional Budget Office, their big plan wouldn’t cut the deficit or debt over the next ten years.1
No, they’re doing it to cut taxes dramatically for the richest Americans, which are already near historic lows. And they’re doing it by replacing Medicare’s guarantee of care with vouchers that will only guarantee big profits for their friends in Big Insurance. It’s both immoral and fiscally irresponsible.
The Republicans have clearly overplayed their hand, but we can only make them pay for their mistake—and protect Medicare—if we can raise the funds to fight their plan.
There’s only one way to understand the Republicans’ budget plan—voted for by all but four House Republicans. It’s a naked, unapologetic attack on American working families for the sake of Big Insurance and the richest of the rich:
It abolishes Medicare’s guarantee of medical care for Americans over 65, throwing them at the feet of Big Insurance.2
It uses that money to cut taxes for the wealthiest Americans below their already historic lows—down to 25%.3
It leads to bigger debts and deficits over the next decade, according to the independent, nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.4
After we fought long and hard to get health insurance for millions more working Americans, Republicans want to take it away at the end of our working lives. It’s pulling the rug out from under all the hard work we achieved on health care reform.
If you are speaking of the Ryan plan, if Ryan were your typical politician, he would not have put forth his plan because he'd know the other side would immediately demagogue it. He put it out there, I think, for two reasons: 1) we're heading off a fiscal cliff and somebody must wake people up and set out something reasonably bold concerning spending and entitlements to forestall that event. 2) he judged the country was ready to hear straight talk about our deepening fiscal crisis.
No, his plan is not truly revolutionary, but he went as far as he thought he could and still be taken seriously. The left tries to make it a right wing plan for disaster, some on the right say it's useless because it doesn't go far enough, and people like me say it's something of a baby step, but it's a start. As far as Ryan's ability to explain what he's proposing, I'll just say this: the one guy Obama doesn't want to stand on a stage and debate is Ryan.
Medicare. It will end, as we know it, one way or the other...period. When and by how much is just semantics. The Democrats and their Party oppose Ryan's Plan simply because it does the opposite of Obamacare by leaving the seniors in control of their healthcare decisions instead of the Obamacare Plan of giving all healthcare decisions, young, middle, and seniors, over to a Government Panel of bureaucrats. So the Medicare issue boils down to one thing and one thing only--who has control over the peoples present and future healthcare. Myself, being not one to think any Government ever has the peoples interests anywhere close to benevolence, prefer to keep control over healthcare out of any Government's dictatorial controls: be it regulation or a death panel.
Tell you what, Keep medicare for any one over let say over 55. Anyone from 40 to 55 can chose to join medicare or drop out completely. 40 and younger no medcare what so ever. One can chose to buy and old age medical insurance or nothing at all. But no health care insurance will be mandated. I am close to 65 to back up my plan just refund to me every peeny put into ssi or medicare and you will never hear from me agian on government healthcare.
More liberal thinking and healthcae. Now the FDA and the EPA is involved in healthcare policy.
This goes back to yes 2008 the Bush adminstration and Ronny Rayguns and now the Obama adminstration. More proof that govt only makes things worse and more expensive for those who do have coverage and those who don't
The bad news? The only over-the-counter asthma inhaler currently available in the U.S. uses CFC. The worse news? Upwards of one to two million people use that inhaler. The worst news? Prescription inhalers can cost up to three times as much, which means the crusade to rid the planet of this sliver of the CFC supply will operate as a de facto regressive tax on asthma sufferers.
The good news, via of liberal enviromentalist and geen bots: “Think of how much smaller the U.S. carbon footprint will be without all of those asthma sufferers around.”
But going green may have some inhaler users seeing red, as the ozone-friendly inhalers cost more. Epinephrine inhalers go for around $20. The alternatives, which contain the drug albuterol, cost $30 to $60.
What’s next? They going to outlaw farting?
If the liberal complaining about the repug healthcare proposal by Ryan needs top stop and absorb what Paul Krugamn said. He blasts Ryan. Fine then so be it, but remember this. Krugman was a key advisor at Enron.Lanny Davis Clintons personal lawyer also went to work there as well
Kerosen Maxine said she aint complainin’”.Why do all of a sudden I am seeing a rerun of the Jeffersons?
Maxine Waters gives good decent black folks a bad name…
Go figure.An annual survey found that premiums for employer-provided family plans increased by 9 percent — to $15,073 — in 2011.
More proof that this liberal progressive piece of hope and change is leaving dimwits vulnerable to charges that the law isn’t working and wont work.
But dont forget the stimulus created millions of jobs. I can still hear Pelosi, Reid and more saying hurry it up so we can pass it so we can see whats in it.
But but but its only 9% and this is just the first year.
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