[NonValueAdded]

What choice did he have?

[linn37]

No doubt the man paid into the system to get that care. So what should he have done paid cash?

[arthurus]

It was Medicare because that was the only option he has.

[jwparkerjr]

Most of those that I know on Medicare don't feel the least bit bothered by the fact. Most of them paid into it long before they were eligible, every week, every every paycheck, every payday, week in and week out, year after year. Even now it's not ‘free’ by any stretch of the imagination. The basic cost is about $90 a month, but you have to have supplemental coverage to avoid being overwhelmed by a major sickness. My supplemental coverage costs me $140 a month, plus I pay another $40 or so for my drug coverage. I have co-pays for every office visit and every prescription. My meds cost me $150 a month over and above the coverage, with a $275 deductible. If I go over a certain amount in drugs in a year I have to pay %100 of the costs until another plan kicks in. And I have a $185 deductible for doctor's visits. True, to have private coverage equal to this would cost me more than the $400 or so a month that I pay, but I consider the thousands of dollars I paid in Medicare taxes during my working years to be my part of paying for the additional. Before I was eligible for Medicare I had group coverage through my employer. When I left, downsized, my COBRA was just over $500 a month, plus meds.

I figure throwing out the Medicare angle of the story was intended to offset the fact it was a pro-Obama guy that did the biting, despite early reports in the LA Times.

[taxcontrol]

Ummm, Medicare can’t treat anyone. It can only PAY for treatment.

[paulycy]

Others have said the same thing on this thread: This medicare argument is a strawman.

We don’t have any choice about medicare now. That battle is over.

But just because senior use medicare - what choice do they have? - does not mean that any total govt healthcare takeover must be A-OK or they are hypocrites.

I CALL BS.

I hope others continue to do so, too, especially in the media.

[Venturer]

When the new Health care Bill is passed, his rationed care would tell him to put a band aid on it and go home.

The new Health care bill isnt Medicare folks. I dont know why so many have a problem with knowing that.

They claim that 534 Billion dollars will be saved from Medicare. They cannot save ten cents without rationed care.

[WHBates]

They just don’t get it, but the people do.

[donna]

One time I skipped applying for unemployment when I could have had it.

I’ve felt like a sucker every since.