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I Can No Longer Tolerate Rush Limbaugh Misrepresenting Medicare
self post | July 9, 2013 | Bob Ireland

Posted on 07/09/2013 11:15:43 AM PDT by Bob Ireland

For some years I have listened to Rush Limbaugh, and heard him picture Medicare recipients as some sort of ungrateful leaches sucking off of the public dole. He characterizes them as resisting having to pay a dime for their medical coverage.

Being a fan of Rush, I have tolerated this misguidance on his part and sent him e-mails [I am 24-7 member] trying to save him from being caught in a 'lie'. He has never responded to these e-mails - for whatever reason.

Then yesterday - Monday - he mentioned a story about the Congress considering a bill to make Medicare recipients pay 'a few pennies' for their medical coverage - and the bill going down to defeat. I simply cannot remain silent in the face of this total fabrication.

I have been on Medicare for 15 years. My Medicare Part B presently costs me a little pocket change short of $100 a month - a little less that $1,200 a year. That money is deducted out of my Social Security check before I ever receive it. That benefit offers to pay 80% of my allowable medical bills, and I am responsible for the other 20%.

In my case - since I look at government programs with a jaundiced eye - I have signed my Medicare obligations over to a private HMO [called an Advantage Plan]. However, Obama's health care plan has drained the Medicare treasury by hundreds of billions of dollars; therefore the future of the program is in question. In some states I understand the Advantage Plans have already been canceled. Many doctors and hospitals are trying to figure how to get free of Medicare since the Medicare payments are either delayed, diminished or missing altogether. I still cannot be sure my HMO will be part of Medicare next year.

BUT, back to the main theme of this article: How many FReepers pay $1,200 a year for their medical insurance? Probably some do; likely most do not. I am not complaining about paying for my health care - I voluntarily and happily pay the premium.

Furthermore, if it becomes a matter of saving the dollar from total collapse I would accept the cancellation of Medicare altogether. Just stop charging me $100 a month and send the program into the Bermuda Triangle. I have led a fruitful life. HOWEVER, under Obama's healthcare program, that cannot happen. My Medicare could be cancelled and I could be set with the old Indian squaw by the side of the road to waste away - but I would still have to pay my health care premium in order to provide health care for younger folk.

Would someone who can get through to Rush Limbaugh get these points across to him - if he is really interested - so that people can understand the truth about Medicare - not a bunch of myths and misrepresentations.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: abortion; clarity; deathpanels; medicare; mockingbird; obamacare; obamacaremedicare; obamamedicare; oneparty; resistsimpeachment; rush; rushlimbaugh; sellsredblue; zerocare
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To: FirstFlaBn
I don't disagree...
281 posted on 07/09/2013 4:56:28 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Sic semper evello mortem Tyrannis)
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To: Osage Orange
Nope, he hasn't responded to me because I called him exactly what he is, a whiny, pissy little bitch moocher.

I hate the fact that assholes like him are dipping into my wallet funding their healthcare, then they BITCH about it.

F' him. Hope medicare/Medicaid etc.. etc.. etc.. denies his claims until he dies. Serve him right for TAKING from me then bitching about the very services he receives at the expense of the few TAXPAYERS like me who are funding his sorry ass existence!

282 posted on 07/09/2013 5:42:45 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: WestTexasWend

His fame a riches have gone to his head...is mainly a blow hard now, not the same Rush of years back.


283 posted on 07/09/2013 5:44:56 PM PDT by fabian (" And a new day will dawn for those who stand long, and the forests will echo in laughter")
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To: Bob Ireland
Then please campaign to cancel the program... I don't mind. Just have them stop charging me when they stop the benefits.

Actually, I'm not saying that we should do away with old-age benefits. They do need serious reform, though, like means testing and eliminating arbitrary age kick-ins. Given our desperate financial situation, we're going to have to start expecting people to continue working while they are physically able to. We can't afford to give healthy and fit 65 year olds welfare just because they've passed some magic age.

284 posted on 07/09/2013 5:53:07 PM PDT by Sparticus (Tar and feathers for the next dumb@ss Republican that uses the word bipartisanship.)
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To: usconservative
Well....I wouldn't have said it like that.

FWIW-

285 posted on 07/09/2013 6:41:54 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Sic semper evello mortem Tyrannis)
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To: Osage Orange
I can certainly understand that. Some folks are more polite than I am. I prefer to deal with the looters and moochers on a level they understand and leave no room for doubt about how I feel about their pathetic existence on this planet.

In short: I'm just a simple "tell it like it is" kinda guy. ;-)

286 posted on 07/09/2013 7:11:37 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Bob Ireland
I'm having to sign up for part A now (still work & have health coverage). My blood pressure goes up 200 points every time I have to speak with these gov leaches. What business is my health/health care of the gov????

If these gov basturds told me they were going to keep ALL of the Medcare TAX I paid in over the years & I could opt out of gov health care & they would NEVER contact me AGAIN, I'd get HAPPY DRUNK for a WEEK!!!

287 posted on 07/10/2013 1:02:48 AM PDT by Take_Ur_shot (Some day things are going to be as bad as they are right now!)
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To: arista
Many young people are working hard, trying to save enough to buy their first house and start a family.
Wow, really? Guess that's never happened in America before.
Instead of blaming others, quit your feckin' whining and find a solution to your problem.
288 posted on 07/10/2013 5:25:55 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Fledermaus
No one is forced to go on Medicare.
No, we just wanted to pay for it while we worked for, oh, forty five feckin' years, then we decided to ignored it. Fool.
289 posted on 07/10/2013 5:30:00 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Bob Ireland
Like most of the people on this thread you are in over your head.

With all due respect; pound sand. I'm not in over my head. Sometimes when it seems like everyone else is wrong, it's best to look in the mirror. You complained that Rush was calling you a leech (which he didn't) because you were getting something for free (which you are). You basically pay for 3 months of insurance and the taxpayers (me and others on the thread) pick up the difference. In the retail world this would be called "buy one and get three free" Note the word FREE there.

Maybe it's because you are an idiot. Maybe you just can't do math. Maybe you think that since you pay something, you are self supporting. Maybe you just don't know how to effectively communicate using the written word.

SImple fact is that if YOU paid for the entire bill rather than having taxpayers chip in the rest of us on the thread would probably not have chimed in,

Think about that. you post something and tons of people reject your premise. Somehow in your little brain, the whole crowd here at FR can't read. Time for some self reflection.

290 posted on 07/10/2013 6:44:24 AM PDT by BlueMondaySkipper (Involuntarily subsidizing the parasite class since 1981)
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To: Bob Ireland

If you are taking public assistance in any way, shape or form (medicare, medicaid, Social Security, food stamps, etc, etc, etc.) then your are “a public leach sponging off of everybody else’s hard work and sweat”. If you are not taking public assistance, then you are not. Pretty simple actually.

The fact that you paid for other public leaches while you were working is not revelent, nor will it prevent your “benefits” from being cut off abruptly when the “free obama money” runs out.


291 posted on 07/10/2013 7:25:08 AM PDT by RetiredNavy ("Only accurate firearms are interesting")
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To: Mears
***Someone else is paying your way. Must be nice***

Your inability to read and understand what you read shows your ignorance. When you learn to read you will see that I have a private insurance carrier - not Medicare. Therefore your argument is completely baseless and stupid.

292 posted on 07/10/2013 7:55:04 AM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise)
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To: relentlessly
***The cost of services under MediCare exceed the premiums with seniors needing more and more services as they grow older***

This is the propaganda... I wonder if more than 50% of Medicare costs are fraudulent. With private insurance there would be little fraud because the company could not survive it.

***Having those on MediCare pay, for example, a fee to visit a Doctor would discourage visits***

Well, there is a 20% co-pay on Medicare... perhaps not enough. I understand many Dr's do not charge the 20%... curious.

293 posted on 07/10/2013 7:59:48 AM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise)
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To: Fledermaus
***Having to pay a little more isn’t a crime***

Where on earth do you find this in my post? Since I have private insurance, it is up to them what they wish to charge.

294 posted on 07/10/2013 8:02:18 AM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise)
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To: Red Boots
***Under Obama care, even a young healthy adult like my 22 yo pays $120/ month, or $ 1440/ year.***

I have certainly learned a lot about what others pay on this thread... Your argument is all the more reason to eliminate the Affordable Care Act - and probably Medicare if it cannot be completely privatized.

295 posted on 07/10/2013 8:05:22 AM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise)
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To: Repulican Donkey
***Welfare = government transfers of money from tax payers to groups or individuals who do nothing***

I cannot see how this can go on much longer... $17 trillion in debt now! This immigration reform bill will cost another $trillion... this Congress wants this country to go under and the dollar to collapse. We MUST find a way to stop all this treason.

296 posted on 07/10/2013 8:09:42 AM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise)
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To: gogeo
***you aren't interested in any facts***

If you had even the smallest interest in facts you would see how irrelevant your comments are. I have private insurance - not Medicare. Let the insurance company decide what it wishes to charge - or get out of the business. Instead, the govt will likely force private insurance out of Medicare so they can continue the fraud to all their cronies.

297 posted on 07/10/2013 8:13:51 AM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise)
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To: usconservative
***I hate the fact that assholes like him are dipping into my wallet funding their healthcare***

Your ignorance and hatred is so deep I predict you will never find any pleasure in life. ...your choice.

298 posted on 07/10/2013 8:15:59 AM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise)
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To: Sparticus
***They do need serious reform***

Given my experience - as stated repeatedly on this thread - I would think privatizing Medicare would pose a solution to costs. Instead, the govt is moving to block all private involvement in the program... speaks volumes to me.

What the hateful ignorant dweebs on this thread will not understand is that - if Medicare is not workable: get rid of it! I will support that. I do not need anyone subsidizing me for anything. The state of Florida keeps trying to get me to apply for Medicaid for more coverage. I tear up the letters and throw them out.

See how stupid most of the haters on this thread are?

299 posted on 07/10/2013 8:22:20 AM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise)
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To: Take_Ur_shot
***I'd get HAPPY DRUNK for a WEEK!***

Don't have a auto wreck... they might leave you by the side of the road [unless you are a Democrap voter!] :-)

300 posted on 07/10/2013 8:25:07 AM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise)
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