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Biden Administration Boosts Medicare Premiums, Blames Drug Costs and Pandemic
Epoch Times ^ | November 13, 2021 | Zachary Stieber

Posted on 11/15/2021 6:12:11 AM PST by gattaca

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1 posted on 11/15/2021 6:12:11 AM PST by gattaca
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WE pay more so illegals can have FREE medical care. PERIOD!!


2 posted on 11/15/2021 6:18:41 AM PST by SMARTY (Republics decline into democracies & democracies degenerate into despotisms. Aristotle)
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2.9 million illegals in the US in 2021 alone!!! And we seniors and US citizens pay the bills.


3 posted on 11/15/2021 6:21:11 AM PST by devane617 (RUN FOR LOCAL ELECTED OFFICE! COUNCIL,SCHOOL BOARD, ETC.)
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To: gattaca

It’s kinda hard to have much confidence in an agency headed by a “Chiquita.”


4 posted on 11/15/2021 6:21:44 AM PST by I want the USA back (Kick the creepy, sleepy, drooling self-pooping methane blaster out of the Oval Office. )
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“Eat up the entire adjustment”

That was the plan all along, to make you pay for the medicare with your social security. Once again, the Democrats are making sure you stay poor, and will increase costs more to make sure you love your homes snd move into retirement centers, and lose your independence. Democrats, making America Poorer than Before


5 posted on 11/15/2021 6:22:03 AM PST by realcleanguy (quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
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To: gattaca

Who’s shocked? Anyone?? Every time seniors get a SS raise, (which is rare) all of a sudden Medicare costs go up, hmmmm, funny how that happens, and then, the ‘big raise’ seniors get, GONE. This time it looks like not only will seniors lose the ‘big raise’ but it looks like they may be getting even less of what they are getting right now before the ‘big raise’ and Medicare costs rising.


6 posted on 11/15/2021 6:22:22 AM PST by rockabyebaby (THE BEST IS YET TO COME - (PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP)
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To: gattaca

Ain’t free health care grand!?


7 posted on 11/15/2021 6:25:55 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: SMARTY

We do. And sooner or later we will be moved from our houses and apartments so the wet backs can have a place to live , also. that was what the National Socialists did to the Jews in 1030s and 40s Germany. It won’t be long before the elected Democrats here come up with the same idea. Continue electing Democrats. Fools never learn.


8 posted on 11/15/2021 6:30:35 AM PST by sport
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> The Medicare Part B standard monthly premium will rise by nearly $22 to $170.10 <

That’s roughly a 15% increase. Now here’s the interesting thing. The Feds tell us that inflation is running at around 6%. So retirees will be getting a 6% bump in their Social Security checks.

I get that the Part B increase is based on medical costs, and not on the overall economy. But 15% is far bigger number than 6% is. So someone is cooking the books somewhere (we are being lied to, again).


9 posted on 11/15/2021 6:31:36 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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Hey Chaquita. HOW is the Biden regime trying to bring down drug prices? That’s a big fat LIE!


10 posted on 11/15/2021 6:35:39 AM PST by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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exactly.


11 posted on 11/15/2021 6:37:01 AM PST by Rusty0604 (" When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." -Ronald Reagan)
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To: gattaca

The deliberate low-balling of cost-of-living adjustments over the past 30 years has reduced effective social security payments by 30%, probably more.


12 posted on 11/15/2021 6:42:01 AM PST by FreedomVsControl
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we are being lied to, again

No, still.

13 posted on 11/15/2021 6:48:25 AM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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Social Security giveth, Medicare taketh away...............


14 posted on 11/15/2021 6:52:27 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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“If your government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away from you everything you have.”

Gerald Ford.


15 posted on 11/15/2021 6:54:41 AM PST by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: subterfuge
Hey Chaquita. HOW is the Biden regime trying to bring down drug prices? That’s a big fat LIE!

That's the easy part. To bring down drug prices, you reduce demand.

You reduce demand by killing off old people.

You kill off old people by means of a virus that specifically targets old people with comorbidities.

Problem solved.................

16 posted on 11/15/2021 6:56:10 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: gattaca

Part B covers inhaled respiratory medication ONLY. They lie about everything.


17 posted on 11/15/2021 7:00:27 AM PST by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda.)
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So long COLA increase:-)


18 posted on 11/15/2021 7:02:26 AM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: subterfuge

Exactly. The cost of these ‘designer’ brand name drugs are skyrocketing. Many of the drugs we see advertised on those glitzy TV commercials cost thousands of dollars a month, and fall under the most expensive tier of most Part D plans. Seniors must pay a full 33% of the retail price for those drugs and can end up shelling out at least $7,000 each year before Medicare really begins to help. The out-of-pocket maximums do not apply to Part D prescription drugs.


19 posted on 11/15/2021 7:36:17 AM PST by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: Red Badger

Yikes!


20 posted on 11/15/2021 7:48:04 AM PST by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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