****Next week I’m scheduled for a cervical spinal fusion that costs upward of $100,000, but I won’t be paying for it. Like 50 million other Medicare recipients, I will receive the medical care I need more or less free of charge thanks to Medicare.**** Linda Chavez
First of all those legal-immigrant surgeons will probably get paid about $5,000 @80% or $4,000 from Medicare “Insurance”.
Insurance coverage and premiums should be based on actuarial tables for which all working/employed participants pay those mandatory taxes. Medicare is going broke because it is paying for people who would be otherwise ineligible under true insurance coverage.
Medigap premiums, or secondary coverage is another expense for retirees, but picks up expenses not paid under Medicare i.e. deductibles and the 20% coinsurance.
Nothing is FREE and Obamacare is just Medicare on steroids.
Thank you for also pointing out that none of medicare is “free”, and the author of the article is misleading readers-Medicaid, which is what most illegals are seeking here is pretty much free-every taxpayer pays for that, too-everyone but the mostly able-bodied recipients, who have paid nothing...
As long as government is going to deduct Medicare premiums involuntarily from everyone’s paychecks and SS checks, it should be more income based than it is, and voluntary-people like the author obviously can afford her own insurance, and even though I have a modest income, I’d prefer to have my own choice, since I’m paying anyway...