Fake Medicare Copay Reduction

[Isaac]

Biden-Harris administration using taxpayer money to mask Medicare premium hikes before election: critics

The Biden-Harris Administration is using taxpayer funds to mask Medicare premium hikes, subsidizing costs significantly despite increasing debt, critics say.

www.foxnews.com

This article is very informative about what Biden/Harris really did with medicare, rather than what they are putting all over the TV regarding capping drug copays.

All they did is shift the burden to the premiums, which (obviously) will just increase. Then to make it super deceptive, they rolled out a 3 year plan to cover their a** so that the pain won't be felt until a while from now.

Just like minimum wage hikes, always shifting around money!

 

[The_Doc_Man]

I gave up and Medicare paid the $1200 for a procedure that never happened

I had a "ghost consultation" once when I was still on corporate insurance rather than Medicare. That "ghost consultation" occurs when a specialist sticks his head in on someone else's surgery and asks, "How's it going?" then nods blankly at the answer. And sticks a $1500 consultation fee on your surgical costs. In my case it was during my gall bladder removal done via laparoscope. He wasn't my gastro guy or the surgeon; nor was he on the surgeon's staff. Supposedly there is now a law against that kind of billing irregularity but when it happened, it technically was not yet illegal.

 

[Steve R.]

Some historical perspective to Social Security (rather than Medicare) which still relates to the bastardization of both of these programs. I wasn't old enough then to be receiving Social Security, but I vividly recall how wrong it was for the government to be doing that. Ironically, Reagan was president at the time. Now the government under Democratic leadership is pushing for even more taxation. Government has a voracious appetite to tax and spend your money.

Since a pair of 1938 Treasury Department Tax Rulings, and another in 1941, Social Security benefits have been explicitly excluded from federal income taxation. (A revision was issued in 1970, but it made no changes in the existing policy.) This changed for the first time with the passage of the 1983 Amendments to the Social Security Act. Beginning in 1984, a portion of Social Security benefits have been subject to federal income taxes.

Key Moments in the History of Social Security

A look back at the evolution of this vital government program that dates back to 1935

www.aarp.org

 

[Isaac]

Kamala Harris was on record many times for medicare for all and a single payor system for EVERYONE - but now she claims she's not for it, as she knows it's unpopular. she's a liar and a fraud - and a very weird public speaker

 

[Steve R.]

Using federal taxpayer money to mask Medicare premium hikes implies a greater governance problem. Federal money is also apparently being used to "mask" the humanitarian (welfare) aid illegal immigrants are receiving. The Biden/Harris administration, by "masking" how programs are funded demonstrates corruption. The public has no assurance that funds designated for one specific program is not somehow "stolen" from that program to fund another program such as Medicare premium and illegal immigrant welfare.

Who’s Funding Illegal Immigration? You Are.

People often ask how illegal aliens can afford to pay for their journeys across the border. Much funding comes from predictable sources.

amac.us

At every stage of a migrant’s journey, U.S. tax money smooths the way for people planning to enter and live in the United States illegally.

 

[AccessBlaster]

Utopia is just around the corner with these folks.

“If you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would someday become communist. I, a socialist, think that we should strive toward a socialist society, all the way to communism.” -Jane Fonda

 

[Isaac]

If you understood what communism was was meant to be but never works out

 

[AccessBlaster]

I know I've been in office for 40 years but if you just elect me one more time, I promise I will deliver on all my promises.

It's the epitome of asininity

 

[DickyP]

This thread has made me glad for the first time ever to have our dreafuĺy bloated and inefficient NHS!

 

[AccessBlaster]

This thread has made me glad for the first time ever to have our dreafuĺy bloated and inefficient NHS!

I've always had good health insurance because I shop the benefits before accepting employment. They had to have as a minimum good health and retirement plans. Now that I am retired, I have been with SCAN Medicare (government insurance) for about 3 years. It's not as portable as company insurance, but it seems to be working with few complaints.

 

[Isaac]

Democrat politicians are smart, though. The lethal combination is they're smart and the average voter is stupid, which makes the whole situation easily manipulate-able.

Meaning that for instance - think how well Identity Politics has worked for them. The second they present a black candidate, they're guaranteed almost all black votes, as black voters have been trained to identify based on race above all else, all the time - whether it be "seeing" victimhood in the way they are treated on a daily basis rather than blaming the just-as-likely candidate of their own behavior.......or whether it be voting or following.

 

[Isaac]

Kamala's latest idea of price controls is so stupid - we should allow the market to determine prices