Why? What if they can pay? Why am I as a tax payer hit with a bill for a rich person with a pre existing conditions You do see the kick backs coming to these law makers from insurance companies , dont you. These people need to go to a high risk pool and THEY pay high risk premiums. After they exhaust all resources then we can subsidize.That aint no 15 BILLION!! We are broke. We don’t have 15 billion for new debt. What happens to the credits we hand out for oremiums for some people to buy their insurancee? Do we buy then a car? a new big house? How about some nice baggy pants? Where in the constituition do I have to pay for someone elses’s stuff? This Stinks!! FREE MARLET NOT COMMUNISM!!
If you are at this stage you are already on either Medicaid, DSSI or Medicare. Medicare is a pre-paid tax for healthcare, it is FIXED, RATIONED, RESTRICTIVE, DISCRIMINATORY and monthly premiums go up yearly. That $10 COLA raise SS gave you which is another tax, this year the majority went to Medicare premiums.
Every one wants to call it an entitlement, it’s not, it is PRE-PAID TAXES force ably taken from your paycheck for the # of years you worked, in our case 40 yrs.
If you happened to be Ret. Over 65 Military your Secondary is Tricare Life, the same as Medicare it is FIXED, RATIONED, RESTRICTIVE and DISCRIMINATORY. Test have been denied, put off 2-3 yrs, when they should be yearly. You are DoD MANDATED where you get your daily meds. 2 sources Fraud prone Express Scripts who just has the USPS shoves $3K retail worth of 3 months of meds in your unsecured mailbox NO ID sign for, or Military base. What is on the formulary depends on base size. Pharmacy is not equipped to handle handicapped, it is closed all Fed holidays, weekends, and no scripts turned in after 3:30pm you pick them up the next day. EScript doesn’t work half the time and you have to turn around and confirm it with them before they fill it. It is designed for Active Duty. Refills take 5 days, and where they come from depends where you live, ours is Pensacola, we live near Memphis and the Naval base in Millington, TN 20 miles away.
Express Scripts takes 2 weeks for a first fill, 2 weeks for refills. Both refill systems are automated.
There are no options, no appeals, and neither cover hearing aids which most seniors end up needing.
NOR are you allowed to purchase a third ins that would cover what they don’t cover. It voids your Secondary Tricare Life, for which you spent 20 or more yrs being underpaid and over deployed, which congress decreed is part of your benefits of being paid lower wages.
If you die before you begin to collect SS/Medicare, they keep it all.
O’care had more options to it than the RIGGED MEDICARE/TRICARE LIFE system does.