Posted on 11/13/2021 2:52:22 AM PST by zeestephen
The standard premium for Part B will be $170.10 next year, far above the earlier estimate of $158.50...The deductible for Part B will be $233, up $30 (14.8%) from this year...Meanwhile, the deductible for Medicare Part A (hospital coverage) per benefit period will be $1,556 in 2022, up $72 from this year’s $1,484.
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I've been blissfully ignorant on Medicare...last two years, I've been regular Part A, Part B. My prescriptions have been paid by my wife's plan.
I opted out of employer's plan, when I returned to work 4 months ago. It was a hassle when I worked a part time job at UPS, their medical plan was fully paid. I didn't realize I had to notify Medicare that UPS became primary, Medicare secondary. In the end, it worked out well, except for getting Covid at work in March 2020.
Current employer is anti-vax, good thing since I've got natural immunity. I wasn't immune to wife's honey-dos, a big reason why I went back to work...lol.
Good for you, maddog. We’re staying put, kids and grandkids are all close by. Trying to keep things simple.
Why are medical costs going up?
People want drugs and treatment, no matter the cost, because they aren’t paying for it. Then they want to sue if it doesn’t work.
Hah...that Social Security raise not looking so good now, eh?
Most of the increase looks like a gift to the makers of the $56,000 a year Alzheimer’s drug. The drug may go away but the increase in premiums never will.
That's perfectly understandable, but now that's it's perfected *and* deployed, we need leadership. The impotence of the Republican Party, in the face of mass voter theft, is obvious and shameful. They are so petrified of being called a racist by racists, they would prefer that the electoral system burn, and our voters plundered.
The Democrats deserve to lose next November; the Republicans don’t deserve to win.
Not incompetence. Driven by Obama’s band of jackals. AOC, Bernie, Ilhan Omar, Pressley, those NYC creeps, Pelosi, etc.
👍👍👍
Democrats motto comes true by the day
YOU WILL HAVE NOTHING AND YOU WILL LIKE IT.
So much for the 5.9% SS raise. It happens every time. SS gets a raise and medicare raises their prices defeating the whole purpose of a SS raise. SMH.
That would be a half-truth.
Doesn’t appear to be so so far.
we ae only getting 1/2 the story on the premium increase
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