[cherry]

I want those on Medicare and all govt workers to get a big, big increase as well....if we mere workers have to pay, I want them to pay as well...

[Rusty0604]

The gov’t workers that are unionized have cadilac plans and pay little out of their own pocket if any. The taxpayers pay the rest.

[sarasmom]

I'm curious as to why you want those on Medicare to “pay for it” again.

They already DID pay for “it”.
Some would say they invested wisely, albeit forcibly, via weekly payroll deductions throughout their entire working lives.
I did.I even have all my W2s before and after the Feds split their “take” from SSAN into two parts.

Are you confusing Medicaid with Medicare?

That's OK. Lots of ignorant people do that.
That doesn't mean I think you are stupid, I just know you are horribly ignorant.

Medicare is supposed to pay for elderly health care expenses, via the taxes from years of prepaid workers premiums.

Medicaid is an unfunded federal program, that drains the “funds” of all past, current and future Medicare payers, for political reasons.

All the greedy old people who have pre-paid their medical expenses via taxes for several decades, must now step aside, because the feds spent the money on other people?

Lay down the pipe, and stop smoking whatever it is you use to alter physical reality!

[Cheerio]

Those drawing on Medicare in their senior years paid into the funding pot for decades (in my case since 1965). If the amount paid into the plan was insufficient then the Government corruptocrats have been lying to us - surprise surprise. The doctors are soon going to refuse all Medicare patients once the “Doc Fix” is allowed to go into effect - it gets a reprieve annually from the Congress because the politicians know what the result would be if they allow it to go into effect.

This District of Corruption Government is so corrupt and deceitful there are no words in the English dictionary to describe it. Since you are still working, you have every right to be upset - vote them all out. Institute term limits. Cut off the Seniors who have been forced to pay into Medicare for decades and I can guarantee you what will transpire, use your imagination.

Obamacare was sold to you with even more lies, 2,300 pages that no one read and was jammed down our throats. The Senate had to change it's rules to stop the 41st vote from Scott Brown. Piglosi told Congress they have to vote for it to see what was in it. Obama TOOK one half TRILLION out of Medicare to keep his Obamacare estimated costs below 1 TRILLION which is what he sold the nation on. Latest estimate are over $6 TRILLION and rising every time it hits the news.

New requirements are being written weekly by Sect of HHS, since the Congress gave the law writing authority to Obama. GOOD GOD, you want Medicare recipients to pay like you have to pay? ALTHOUGH I DO NOT KNOW YOUR AGE, I CAN GAURENTEE YOU MEDICARE WILL NOT BE THERE WHEN YOU RETIRE. I doubt the USA can exist in it's current form more than four more years - the markets will tell us when it is over - but it will be so sudden that it will make 1929 look like getting ready for a Sunday picnic. Count on it.

[dforest]

Pay attention. The cost of Medicare is also going to rise. Problem is, your coverage will be also be paid off the backs of seniors who will have their treatments cut.

Do you FEEL better now?