Medicare takes $1,198.80 a year out of my Social Security for health insurance. They take out $529.20 a year for my drug coverage. My supplemental insurance to pay for what Medicare doesn't, costs me $3,240 a year. That is a total of $4,968.00 a year I pay for health care and medicine, except I also pay a part of the cost of the medicine and I haven't added that up.
Rush does not know of which he speaks to say we pay nothing. Perhaps he will pay for me that $4,968.00 and my part of the medicine I also pay, so I will actually have free health care.
WE PAY to have Medicare (our only choice if 65 or older)to have doctor/hospital insurance, and WE PAY for the supplement insurance and WE PAY for the drug policy and WE PAY for the cost of medicine over what our policy pays.
Adding to my post 198, I pay that nearly $5,000 a year for insurances and I go to the doctor once a year to renew prescriptions and have a blood test. Medicare and insurance companies are making money off me but it’s there if I need it.
Look, I’m 80, but I was on my husband’s company policy until I was about 74, so I haven’t even been on Medicare many years. I know some older people have bad health and I want them to be able to be treated, but I’m still healthy and hope to remain that way. Right now, I’m paying that almost $5,000 a year for one doctor visit a year.
Exactly! If the govt cannot afford to carry the program then stop the program! ...and stop making us pay if you stop the program!