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What About Us Retirees ?
self ^ | September 26, 2013 | knarf

Posted on 09/26/2013 6:29:37 AM PDT by knarf

With all the obamascare going on, I wonder about my situation as a retiree ...


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KEYWORDS: insurance; obamacare; retiree
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To: riri

Now everyone understands why the rush to get guns out of the hands of the electorate. Voting by trigger finger has been made moot.


21 posted on 09/26/2013 6:46:06 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: Wolfie
Savings?

What's that ... a new dance ?


I own my home .. no mortgage, just taxes (not much on the scale of things)

We eat Asian ... lots of rice, veggies and a little meat (basically .. of COURSE there's other stuff ... SHE may be Asian but I'M by God a sugar lovin' AMERICAN .. )

We don't drive much .. church .. shopping .. visiting the kids .. all local

So unless something tragic happens ... we survive comfortably


Most importantly ... we tithe.


We just can't have any change in the demands on us.

I refuse to get food stamps which I'm sure we'd qualify for and so far, no LIHEAP fuel gift from the gummint. (I burn fuel oil supplimented with about 6 cords of firewood each winter)

22 posted on 09/26/2013 6:46:42 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: Wolfie
Anybody with adequate savings will be ok.

Short term sure - long term not so much. Helicopter Ben and his successor are destroying the US dollar and all your savings. This is by design - IMHO someday in the not too distant future (after all the IRA and 401K have lost their tax deferred status) - this socialists wealth distribution will have driven the middle class to extinction, and EVERYONE still here will be dependent on uncle Sam. The "wealthy" will have moved off shore to escape what is happening.


23 posted on 09/26/2013 6:47:50 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: dpetty121263

I’m a retired fed. I have no idea how this abomination is going to affect me. I haven’t received any paperwork fom OPM yet. I’ll be afraid to open the envelope if it arrives here.


24 posted on 09/26/2013 6:48:11 AM PDT by Ax
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To: rrrod

I’ve said for years now that I feel like the Bruce Willis character visiting the past in 12 Monkeys. But it’s not just that I see the future almost as clearly as he did. Rather, the bible is pretty clear on it. And I believe each generation bears responsibility for not the world they inherit, but what they make of it.

As our founding fathers did.


25 posted on 09/26/2013 6:48:15 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: knarf
I can't get a definitive in-writing answer to what happens in my situation. I'm on Medicare Part A, but didn't not sign up for Part B or the pharmaceutical program. Will I be forced to get any more coverage?

One thing for sure. I wouldn't sign anything unless I saw in writing and official that laid out my options.

26 posted on 09/26/2013 6:48:18 AM PDT by grania
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To: knarf

You are old and no longer useful! Just a drain on society and no longer required. Crawl into a hole and pass quietly into the nite. Who cares about You!

The panels will decide for you...

/blantant sarcasm from a 55 year old


27 posted on 09/26/2013 6:49:08 AM PDT by seeker41 (take your country back by whatever means necessary)
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To: cuban leaf

I completely agree with you. If I get sick, either I will get well on my own or I will croak. Big deal. Life is torturous and not worth living right now in the grip of demons.

My sister was in the hospital this year and it was awful. I would like to avoid all that mess


28 posted on 09/26/2013 6:49:52 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: cuban leaf
Pretty much MY attitude as well.

God's been good to me in that I haven't had any problems in life that wasn't fixed with stiches.

29 posted on 09/26/2013 6:50:37 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: seeker41

LOL...that made my day!!! Thanks!


30 posted on 09/26/2013 6:50:56 AM PDT by rrrod (at home in Medellin Colombia)
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To: yldstrk

I really like to read Ecclesiastes. Proverbs is wisdom 101. Ecclesiastes is wisdom 301. And the very last two sentences bring the whole thing into perspective.

Whenever I read it, it is cover to cover.


31 posted on 09/26/2013 6:51:26 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: Ax

you ought to be embarrassed not trumpeting the fact that you lived off the taxpayers for years unless you are retired military


32 posted on 09/26/2013 6:52:29 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Nip

Because of “ObamaCare” he is closing his doors and leaving the medical practice entirely.
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A couple of years ago my doctor made his exit into an early retirement — because of Obamacare. He absolutely detested it.


33 posted on 09/26/2013 6:52:33 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: rrrod

Welcome to the USSA.


34 posted on 09/26/2013 6:54:14 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Jane Long
My doctor (former doctor) still accepts Medicare BUT he now charges $1800 per year per patient for Medical Concierge if you wish to make an appointment. Medical Concierge‎ coming to your area soon. ‎
35 posted on 09/26/2013 6:54:41 AM PDT by satan (The tree of liberty is dying in the drought.)
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To: yldstrk; Ax
Wow!

50 years ago YOU would'a taken a gummint job 'cause they paid SO well and offered terrific bennies.

Yes you would'a ... don't try to deny it.

36 posted on 09/26/2013 6:56:05 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: Cheerio

The “wealthy” will have moved off shore to escape what is happening.
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Sure to be a growing trend. The idea appeals to many. And the potential for a higher standard of living is icing on the cake.

If you can’t beat ‘em, leave ‘em. :)


37 posted on 09/26/2013 6:58:39 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: knarf

50 years ago government jobs were for losers

government jobs now are a way to get “on the gravy train”—the first time I ever heard this was from my sister who was attending Northwestern University J school in Evanston Illinois.

She is on the gravy train alright, disability.


38 posted on 09/26/2013 6:58:47 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Youngman542012
True a lot of Doctors will quit but expect a flood of foreign doctors.
39 posted on 09/26/2013 6:59:20 AM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: knarf

God’s been good to me in that I haven’t had any problems in life that wasn’t fixed with stiches.


I think our current culture hates that life is temporary. They are ignoring what man’s lot in life is. They are getting old, but forgetting to pick up wisdom about life along the way.

Us old guys can spend our last days in all sorts of helpful ways. We can teach the young about “real” life. We can help the infirm. We can lead by example. But if we just want to keep on living to please ourselves, and have not seen any change in what pleases us, we are not getting it.

I learned to play bass when I was 44 (1998)and played in “classic rock” bands (among other genres) right up through moving to Kentucky a couple of years ago. That ended it after seeing what I saw.

Specifically, it was fat and ugly men and women in their 50’s, 60’s and 70’s acting like teenagers, only in much more repulsive ways. I actually conversed with many of these people and it’s almost like there is nobody home. They have picked up zero wisdom after many decades on this planet and their lifestyle (even away from the bars) demonstrates it.

And after a great deal of reflection I realized that it was the same in Seattle, except it had a prettier coating on it. A nicer facade. America has become a culture that is rotten to the core. It is why we are where we are. And where we are is a very, VERY bad place. Only a minority of us notice. More are figuring it out, but it takes direct impacts on their lives for it to happen.

It will get a lot worse before it gets better.


40 posted on 09/26/2013 7:00:40 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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