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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

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To: Sparticus
***you have to see that Medicare is really just an old-age welfare benefit***

Then please campaign to cancel the program... I don't mind. Just have them stop charging me when they stop the benefits.

81 posted on 07/09/2013 11:50:11 AM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise)
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To: Bob Ireland
How many FReepers pay $1,200 a year for their medical insurance?

Haven't had to pay for health insurance out in the market lately, have you? I pay twice that and I have a company that provides reasonably priced coverage.

82 posted on 07/09/2013 11:50:22 AM PDT by 0.E.O
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To: Bob Ireland
private insurance company [like AARP (shudder)]
Wrong. AARP is in NO WAY an insurance company.
Medicare Advantage programs (I'm on one too) are run by private insurance companies and supported by gov't money. I'm 95% sure Supplemental Plans are as well, but I'd have to research them agian to be sure.
The Supplemental Plans run from $50 a month to over $400 a month depending on a number of factors.
83 posted on 07/09/2013 11:50:26 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Bob Ireland

Part b? What about Part a? Do you pay a dime for that?? I do! I pay 2.9% of my income to that welfare crap!


84 posted on 07/09/2013 11:50:32 AM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: autumnraine
You are neither. You paid into it with a gun pointed at your head (figuratively speaking). Now the criminals who did it won't admit that your money is gone.

Sucks to be you, and me, by extension . . . because I'm being asked to carry "your" Ponzi "investment" forward.

85 posted on 07/09/2013 11:50:42 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 7thson
***There should be no Medicare***

Then please campaign to end the program... I do not mind.

86 posted on 07/09/2013 11:51:57 AM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise)
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To: US Navy Vet

And yet, they are still more conservative than boomers. Which, speaks volumes.


87 posted on 07/09/2013 11:52:17 AM PDT by JCBreckenridge ("we are pilgrims in an unholy land")
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To: Sparticus

Really, anyone who has a serious illness/surgery/hospitalization gets back more benefits than they pay into ANY insurance plan


88 posted on 07/09/2013 11:52:32 AM PDT by SendShaqtoIraq (Teresa Davis)
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To: Bob Ireland
I've been listening to Rush since 1989 and haven't heard him call Medicare recipients 'leeches' but I may have missed it as I can't listen 15 hours a week.

I'm also a Medicare recipient and wish I weren't. I had good coverage with Blue Shield for a reasonable cost but was forced to take Medicare because Blue Shield drops you at 65, so it's Medicare or nothing. Although I'm healthy with no chronic medical conditions, it would be foolish not to take the Medicare coverage, such as it is. However, because I have little choice in the matter, I certainly don't consider myself a 'leech'. The Medicare coverage isn't free and I have no say in the premiums.

If Rush uses that term and means it, he is badly misinformed, which I doubt. Of course when you make 40 million or so every year like Rush does - and I don't begrudge it to him - it's going to be hard to relate to someone who has to take the government medical insurance or have nothing. That may be the crux of the problem if Limbaugh actually refers to Medicare recipients as 'leeches'.

89 posted on 07/09/2013 11:52:47 AM PDT by Jim Scott
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To: Bob Ireland
Then please campaign to cancel the program....

Given the premise of your first post is true, isn't that what Rush is doing?

90 posted on 07/09/2013 11:53:02 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: JCBreckenridge

You are UNEDUCATED!


91 posted on 07/09/2013 11:53:06 AM PDT by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: Bob Ireland

“How many FReepers pay $1,200 a year for their medical insurance?”

Are you really that disconnected with reality? Even when employers pay for some of the medical insurance costs, many families pay that EACH MONTH.


92 posted on 07/09/2013 11:53:17 AM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: Bob Ireland
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%.

Your Medicare Part B premiums only cover 25% of the actual costs. By law, the remaining 75% comes from General Revenues. This represents a subsidy by current taxpayers.

93 posted on 07/09/2013 11:54:19 AM PDT by kabar
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To: US Navy Vet

Uneducated and ignorant too! Oh my.

No, no I’m not.

You say, “we paid for it, we should get what we paid”.

So then, exempt everyone under 65 since what you paid into it should be sufficient for you to live off in your retirement.


94 posted on 07/09/2013 11:54:57 AM PDT by JCBreckenridge ("we are pilgrims in an unholy land")
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To: Bob Ireland
You are in over your head... study the difference of Medicare from Medicaid - a welfare program.

35 posted on Tuesday, July 09, 2013 2:32:44 PM by Bob Ireland (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise)

I don't Care who you are, that there is FUNNY. The above comment comes from somone who never paid a dime in the perscription Coverage part of Medicare.

Bob, Care to compare what percentage of your income you had to hand over in SSI taxes during your lifetime? How about Dollar amounts. I guarentee you at 35 years old I had already paid in a Larger Percentage and 3-5 times what you paid. Thanks Bob. I think we all pretty much get your drift. Something like, BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I Want my FREE STUFF!

95 posted on 07/09/2013 11:55:11 AM PDT by VRWCarea51
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To: JCBreckenridge
Hey, don't get porky with me, it ain't my feckin' system.
What never gets dragged into the light of day is that all these FAILED social programs like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Øbama Care, were all made into law via Democrat administrations.
96 posted on 07/09/2013 11:55:23 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: autumnraine

“I pay 40 years into a plan, I am not a free loader. I am an investor.”

Would you like to get rich? I discovered this fantastic Multi-Level Marketing program that you can’t lose money on.

Message me for details, we don’t let too many join so as to keep the profits high.

(sarcasm in good fun, no offense intended)


97 posted on 07/09/2013 11:56:01 AM PDT by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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To: oh8eleven

So exempt everyone under 65. Simple. :)


98 posted on 07/09/2013 11:56:21 AM PDT by JCBreckenridge ("we are pilgrims in an unholy land")
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To: Bob Ireland

Out of MY paycheck comes SS and Medicare taxes.
I get nothing now nor will I get anything later for it.
People who did not earn my money take it.

I pay property taxes for garbage built years ago when YOU floated bonds because you didn’t want to pay for it.
I’m stuck paying for retired municipal employees who milked the system that YOU supported for years.
Our most-deserving uniformed military are awarded a bare pittance compared to what they have EARNED!

Whatever you pay now for your “insurance” is not enough. You are receiving welfare. Face it, accept it and ST*U about it, except to say thank you.

Sick to death of greedy geezers complaining. YOU ARE THE REASON for most of the current problems.

Go ahead and flame. You’ve been blowing hot gas for years.


99 posted on 07/09/2013 11:56:58 AM PDT by Macoozie (1) Win the Senate 2) Repeal Obamacare 3) Impeach Roberts)
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To: HotHunt
***You can reject Part B Medicare and just go with the the free Part A inpatient coverage. My wife and I are both veterans***

Thank you for clarifying this about Part A and Part B. I did not wish to get too detailed, because I am not talking about what about 90% of the posters on this thread keep babbling about.

Veterans should not have to pay for healthcare - especially service-related disabilities. As for the rest of us: go ahead and cancel the whole thing - and stop charging me for it if you do that.

100 posted on 07/09/2013 11:57:35 AM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise)
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