[Salamander]

I hope so.

Hubby was FORCED to take it [*and* pay for it] even though we have the best health insurance money can buy.

Now, rather than *it* being used for his medical care, lousy Medicrap has to be used *first* and the good insurance picks up the leftovers.

Medicrap fights over every thing he needs and God forbid he ever needs surgery they think “pointless”, he’s screwed.

KILL IT NOW.

[cherry]

look....all of you out there with those cushy medical benefits at retirement and those plush defined pensions can do without Medicare and SS....but there are millions of us out here who have worked just as hard and as long as anybody in important fields WITHOUT defined pensions and retirement medical benefits...

so go ahead and index both Medicare and SS.....you who don't need it can just do without it.....

[Venturer]

I know what you are saying.

Since I started working almost 50 years ago I have paid into BC&BS, when I became 65 I was placed on Medicare. I did not ask for it, I was placed on it. and of course I had to pay for it. So I looked into BC&BS as a supplement to medicare and the supplement plan was almost s high as the origina plan, so I just kept it, and now they pay waht Medicare doesn’t pick up.

I never minded paying the $20.00 co-pay at the Doctors and as far as I can see that is the only real difference between what I have now and what I had before.

Medicare did not help me , it helped BC&BS it was a plan to save the health insurance companies, not the buyer.

It won’t hurt me to do without it, as I still have BC&BS.

Medicare should be for the elderly without insurance, not for those who have insurance.

It doesn’t need killing it needs reforming, but please, God, let someone with common sense do the reforming ,and not the idiots who wrote Obamacare.
Obamacare is not health care reform in any way shape or form.It is the biggest piece of crap ever written.Nancy Pelosi’s name should go don with other criminals of the world like Attilla the Hun, and Stalin.