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.
“Medicare should be for the elderly without insurance, not for those who have insurance.”
Exactly!
*Because* Medicare is now, by -force- his “primary insurance”, he can NOT get high-tech painless treatments such as laser kidney stone removal that our BC/BS covers...he’s got to take the “cheaper” pound-your-guts-loose sonic method.
That’s just one example off the top of my head and my husband has NEVER worked “cushy jobs” as one poster assumed.
At 17 he joined the Air Force, then went on to do 50 hard years of manual, blue collar labor.
After years of being a long haul trucker, [his “easiest” job] he retired as a “lowly” welder at the state prison.
We’re not “rich snobs who can afford candy insurance”.
[or whatever she called it]
We’re middle class schmucks, struggling to get by *but* we pay the premiums because we want the best care and we have to sacrifice other “luxuries” to do so.
He’s -earned- his retirement but *can’t* retire because his pension isn’t enough for the crashed economy so he’s not one of those fortunates who can just sit back and enjoy his golden years.
He’s 67 and works 16 long, hard hours a day *just* so we can have good insurance and “luxuries” like decent food for our dogs, electricity and good insurance...even *after* having a _triple-freaking bypass_ last year.
He couldn’t even take off the recommended 3 month recuperation time...he’s got to keep working like a dog just to get us by.
If *you* -want- Medicare, fine.
It should NOT be forced upon others who want nothing to do with it and have to work even *harder* to afford the -mandatory- payments for it.
[and then there’s the really “fun” catch...if he -doesn’t- pay for the -forced- Medicare...they’ll cancel our state employee BC/BS and ~I’ll~ have NO insurance.
How’s that for government blackmail?]
And Cherry, FYI, now that he’s had a bypass surgery, Medicare has basically told us that if he ever [God forbid] needs further surgery for anything related to it, _tough sh*t._
They weren’t “happy” about paying for the the one he had and they don’t consider him ‘valuable’ enough to society to pay for another.
[”death panel” ring any bells?]
So tell me, Cherry, if Medicare told you they’d just let the man you love more than life itself die, no matter how much *other* -good- insurance he has that -would- cover further treatments, how would YOU feel?
-Free- those of us who are being held hostage by forced Medicare.
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