[Reaganesque]

This article was referrenced in another thread and I thought it should have it's own thread.

[dalebert]

it does...medicare is also refusing to pay for many tests required by doctors. this will finish off a lot of people i know.

[Buckeye McFrog]

TV ads about this needs to start running TODAY!

Every time a layer of this onion gets peeled the C of C or someone needs to make ad buys.

[Logical me]

I'm rapidly at the point of I don't give a shi@ anymore. I can survive but I feel real sad that most Americans will be living on a shi@ pile. For the few years I have left, the joke in on young Americans. So sit on your as@ and act like fools. Your problem.

[Wyatt's Torch]

For the government, the tax changes are expected to raise roughly $4.5 billion over the next decade to help pay for the health overhaul. Some of the savings would be negated by retirees enrolling in the Medicare plans.

Exhibit eleventy-bajillion who CBO static scoring is pure, unadulterated crap.

[PLD]

[ReneeLynn]

It really makes me angry/angrier. My mom watched the replay of the signing on the news the other day and said to me, “This isn’t good, is it?”.

[Reaganesque]

This is, in effect, a 28% tax hike on retirees who are on this program.

[momincombatboots]

Hope they are not going Medicare Rx to Walgreens then. Hmm, the deem-o-crats.. they just love old people and children. Guess they forgot they will get old as well.

[JoeFromSidney]

I had a better drug plan with my former employer than Medicate Part D. However, when Part D became law, my former employer dumped me on the Feds. Costs more. I get less. Thank you, George Bush.

The same thing will be happening now, with employer plans.

[Nachum]

The list, ping

[Enough is ENOUGH]

The attached link should answer some questions about the the government’s role behind the increases in health care premiums:

http://www.ramsgate.biz/Headline%20News/Medicare,%20Medicaid%20underpayments%20push%20private%20premiums%20up.htm

[frposty]

“You’re increasing the incentive for companies to say ‘We don’t want to be in the health care business any more,’”

Music to my ears! That’s not to say the Obamacare package is what we want. I think its opponents should be vowing to change it rather than repeal it. It ain’t gonna get repealed.

[GailA]

TRI CARE FOR LIFE This from a google search:

http://economicspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/05/tricare-for-life-is-obama-trying-to.html

This option would help reduce the costs of TFL, as well as costs for Medicare, by introducing minimum out-of pocket requirements for beneficiaries. Under this option, TFL would not cover any of the first $525 of an enrollee’s cost-sharing liabilities for calendar year 2011 and would limit coverage to 50 percent of the next $4,725 in Medicare cost sharing that the beneficiary incurred. (Because all further cost sharing would be covered by TFL, enrollees could not pay more than $2,888 in cost sharing in that year.) http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9925/12-18-HealthOptions.pdf