Posted on 10/10/2015 2:02:00 AM PDT by JoeProBono
And if this happened during Bush? And those last two times? Will there be pictures by the Demo-rats showing grannie being pushed down the stairs in her wheelchair?
Are government workers getting raises or COLA?
Alpo or Gravy Train? Tough choices ahead...
Big Price Hikes Coming For Medicare Premiums In 2016
MSN.com ^ | 14 August 2015 | Martha Lynn Craver
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3325331/posts
The actual rates for Part B (which covers the costs of doctor visits and outpatient care) will be announced in October and take effect Jan. 1. The boost may be 15% for all participants [$105/month to $121] or a whopping 52% for some [$105/month to $159], depending on whether Social Security recipients see a cost-of-living raise for 2016.
Socialist security tightening that belt around your stomach and that noose around your neck. Built on the backs of dead Americans and the money confiscated from them and we the living. Enjoy them golden years until government-care death panels decide your existence is too costly. Carry that debt weight to the end. Stay healthy my FRiend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvwz1LBbvkA
But all the welfare queens have to do is have another child - instant more money. Foist them off on the schools for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Means Ret. Military won’t get one either. Since we both are over 65, he is Ret. SCPO, even if I used the just as costly Commissary for food, We’d still have to eliminate or RATION a lot of fresh foods and beef, some pork, cereals, eggs, milk as these are the food groups that have risen the most.
It is only because gas has gone down we have made the past few months with out extreme rationing. As both of us have had more than usual medical trips we’ve had to make. And since we live in the boonies it takes a 60-90 min round trip drive for a doctor’s visit or testing. Only thing we have close is a Rehab place. Refuse to use a GP as they have snot nosed sick kids in their waiting rooms that don’t know what a Kleenex is or to cover their mouths when they cough. They touch every thing with their germ infested hands.
I love kids, BUT I also raised them and know that they are a big spreader of germs once school starts, along with bringing home Lice they didn’t have when they went to school. DUH, try a head inspection as they walk in the door, turn away those that are infested to be treated before they come back to school would cut that issue down.
No COLA increase means the Part B premium cannot increase (by law, IIRC).
The Medicare Advantage I have will go from $0 monthly premium to $10. The primary care doctor copay will reduce from $12 to $6. Drugs are $0 deductible, except next year, there will be a $175 annual deductible for certain non-generic speciality drugs.
A couple of other plans through other insurance companies have $0 premiums, but my primary care physicial is not on either of their provider lists.
Since I regularly see my PCP 4 times per year, these new 2016 numbers will cost me a total of about $100 for next year.
Typically, when COLAs do happen, the Medicare Part B premium increases to eat up about 1/3 to 1/4 of the increase.
Don’t want us old folk gettin’ a whole big increase and overrunning the stores to spend it on frivolous stuff like food.
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LOL!
The biggest part of our budget is health insurance and given the 22% increases they are already talking about, it would mean our healthcare will be over half our income. That they say there is no inflation is a lie that everyone can recognize.
The refrigerator maybe empty, but the stack of lottery tickets they bought is staggering. I propose a modest increase in SS coupled with the recipients being banned from stepping foot in any casinos.
He drives just as fast, in the left lane, on the interstate.
Thx ...
The Medicare Advantage I have will go from $0 monthly premium to $10. The primary care doctor copay will reduce from $12 to $6. Drugs are $0 deductible, except next year, there will be a $175 annual deductible for certain non-generic speciality drugs.
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My secondary insurer is my former employer. I pay around $275 per month for secondary coverage. it wouldn’t be nearly that expensive but I have a wife and two minor children and my former employer is their primary insurer. Also, my former employer reimburses me for the Medicare premiums I pay.
I’m not complaining, on the whole, it’s a pretty good deal.
“Have not use Medicare yet and hope never to use it so I’m doing my part to help the future generations...”
Why not? Are you old enough for it?
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