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To: Bob Ireland

Alright, so you pay $1,200 a year for a health care program that would cost you probably 5 to 10 times as much if it were not subsidized by the government. You are still getting a boatload of free money from the government. Cry me a river.


19 posted on 07/09/2013 11:26:19 AM PDT by arista
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To: arista

total ignorance


32 posted on 07/09/2013 11:30:08 AM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise)
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To: arista
You are still getting a boatload of free money from the government.
Oh yeah, he's just raking in that free money on Medicare.
First of all, what the hell is he supposed to do? The law says he has to take it.
More importantly, he paid for Medicare (as all of us on Medicare did) for all the decades he worked. And now has to continue to pay monthly premiums for it.
WTF did you come up with this boatload of free money?
56 posted on 07/09/2013 11:39:20 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: arista

Very few people understand how expensive healthcare for a 65+ year-old is. In 2008, Medicare spent $10,188 per beneficiary.

http://www.medpac.gov/documents/Jun12DataBookEntireReport.pdf
see Chart 2-2

The Medicare Part B payment deducted from the Medicare beneficiary’s Social Security old-age welfare benefit is trifling by comparison: about $1200 vs. $10,188.

By the way, that $10,188 reflects monopsonistic Medicare reimbursement rates, which are very much lower than the prices charged to non-Medicare patients. The higher prices for non-Medicare patients cause private insurance premiums to be much higher than they would be in a free market. And, heaven help a private patient without insurance, because their unnegotiated “rack rates” for medical services are obscene.

Like you said: Cry me a river.

However, I don’t blame geezers for getting all the welfare benefits they can get their grubby hands on. I’m approaching geezerhood, and intend to do likewise. I didn’t vote for this system, I don’t consent to this system, but I’m not going to be a sucker.


116 posted on 07/09/2013 12:09:07 PM PDT by Skepolitic
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