Posted on 09/22/2021 7:12:29 PM PDT by entropy12
So true. Just like they insist public school is free. Dummies. Granted it’s not as direct as Medicare, but still….
I hit the "Medicare jackpot" big time also. Two heart attacks and cancer twice.
I am not so certain that I really wanted all that doctoring...
Happened to me last couple of years. Net SS received went down because medicare went up more than COLA increase.
“Only $152? That is a bargain considering what private health insurance costs.”
You are right it’s a helluva good deal! But don’t forget the years of advance payments during one’s working years. Obamacare is what Obama’d up private health insurance.
$152.00 PLUS whatever your supplemental insurance costs you!!
What is disgusting is how many people look to SS as their entire retirement plan. They have no backup or savings.
I saw a facebook posting last year saying “The Republicans are going to cut social security, I’m so afraid”
Now that is disgusting!
Only $152? That is a bargain considering what private health insurance costs.
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Considering Medicare does not cover what private ins does and often at far less coverage. We have to buy supplemental insurance of differing types just to get close to private ins coverages. Medicare is not a bargain.
What is disgusting is how many people look to SS as their entire retirement plan. They have no backup or savings.
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Always a sign of compassion when pillorying those less fortunate who cannot correct mistakes made in the distant past.
No, I wasn’t really thinking about him.
Aetna Medicare advantage is way better than what you just described as well as Cigna. You should change over.
Your head is obviously up your a$$. Most people do not work for employers who pay them enough to live in the first place. To compound that, few employers provide good pension benefits anymore. Now if you are lucky enough to have a good job, and get a pension, then yes it looks like everybody else is just being stupid, while you are oh so clever and well-prepared. But that is simply not reality. A lot of people have been down-waged by the availability of cheap labor, and their jobs might pay $450 to $500 per week gross. Hard to save much on that. Hard to put dollars away for a rainy day when you have a rainy day (transmission go out, hot water heater breaks, etc) 3 or 4 times a year.
It’s just more shell games from the government in the great Ponzi scheme called Social Security.
Good post. The deeper issue is that government regulations and taxes on business have gotten so complex and so extreme that it is very expensive for businesses to hire employees—a lot of the cost is never seen by the workers as wages or salaries.
Decades of attacks by politicians have crippled middle class families—and it is only the top ten percent or so of income earners that can save for a rainy day—and even they will have trouble if they live in high cost urban areas.
“Hoo Boy! Look at that raise Joe Biden got us. Without Joe we’d be stuck at a lousy one or two percent again. There will be democrats out there selling that line.”
You got that right while we pay 2 bucks for a roll of toilet paper and 5 bucks for a gallon of gas.
I get my supplement from AMAC, which is commie AARP’s conservative competitor. Medigap G for $140, part D $7.30
Thank you! There is just so much that goes into the mix anymore that our old notions of “Poor People=Bad People/Irresponsible People” needs to revised. That was probably true back during the 1960s and early 1970s, but the whole matrix has changed. That probably still holds true for maybe 1/3 of poor people - the addicts, the drunks, the lazy and the shiftless - but I have encountered a lot more who have simply fallen between the cracks in some way or another. Medical emergencies can wipe out savings, divorces can wipe out savings and financial health, job losses too, and other things. Rising college costs can saddle young people with ridiculous amount of debt. Bankruptcy laws have changed too, and many people can no longer go Chapter 7, but have to pay off loan shark credit card companies. For many older people, social security is all they got, and the student loan sharks can even come after that. Not to realize these things is what keeps the Country Club Republicans in power vs the Trumpians.
BeeEss on the Ponzi Scheme stuff. Ponzi schemes fail because the money runs out. When the government can simply print more money, the money does not have to run out. Its a whole different thing.
or becomes worthless.
it may never “run out” but it is dropping in value fast
If you printed way too much money it could become worth less. But the Weimar fixed their problem within 3 months so the “print more money” is very viable. Whatever, to call social security a Ponzi scheme is a misrepresentation.
FWIW - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z9y64j6/revision/6
No. No it’s not.
name one private company running things the same way.
(you can’t because it would be illegal)
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