I'm eighteen months from being eligible for Medicare and have worked since roughly age 13 and paid payroll taxes all along. I'm somewhat resigned to losing health insurance with the repeal of Obamacare but the probable gutting of medicare really inflames me. "Privatizing" medicare means increased expense (to support private profit and a bloated duplicitive bureaucracy, one public one private ) and less dollars for actual medical costs.
Privatizing medicare is a pet project of Ryan and Price. This is not a trial balloon.
I have yet to see how any of this bears the slightest relation to the stated goal of making America great again-seems to me like the middle class is going to be hollowed out and dumped at an accelerating rate.
Yup. My mom has been on Medicare for about 2 years now. She had been deferring Social Security and I just suggested that she might want to reconsider that. My dad has individual coverage through Obamacare. He will probably lose his coverage. He's been a contractor for almost 40 years, so I sure hope a bunch of respiratory problems don't pop up from all the plaster dust and fiberglass insulation he's been breathing.
I try to remember that, as much as it sucks that I will likely be driven into significant debt in paying for their medical costs, as least we won't be driven apart like the millions of undocumented workers that now face deportation sweeps and the minorities that are dealing with a spike in hate crimes.
Never forget all the New York Times stories about email servers.
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