Posted on 07/09/2013 11:15:43 AM PDT by Bob Ireland
I have never said such a thing... for the fortieth time: I have private insurance not Mediare... try to open your brain to understand that if possible.
My reply was a general statement for everyone on the thread, not a personal attack on you.
I can see where you might be a little defensive tho, you are getting hit pretty hard here.
Thanks for the insight... I can stand a bit of buffeting on FR - I have been around since about 1997 [before registration.] What amazes me is how people are so incapable of reading and understanding what they read... they just see what they want to see and go off on scurrilous attacks that have nothing to do with anything posted.
In 1998 when we went to Washington and made history we thought FR was the future of the country. If these posters are the future of the country - God help us! :-/
Sucker
Just re-checked this thread, and it blossomed, and now I see a series of mis-statements you are making toward the end, now claiming that you do not have Medicare, for example your reply #301.
You DO in fact have Medicare! Guaranteed! You have it, you wrote yourself that you had it for 15 years, and you have NOT “opted out” — all you did is choose another variation of Medicare on the menu. Americans who qualify for Medicare are basically forced to use Medicare unless they completely opt out and pay cash, a surprisingly complicated thing to do even if you can afford it.
You are simply taking advantage of the Medicare Advantage system which allows you to get a Medicare supplement policy that itself gets paid by Medicare to to the main portion of Medicare for you in it’s own way. You premium your pay is only about as much as you would pay for many other Medicare supplements, and is no nowhere close to the cost of a premium on full private insurance.
In fact, full private health insurance in the usual form bypassing Medicare for you is essentially ILLEGAL and is not available!
I know for a fact that if you are hospitalized that the hospital will have to treat you just like it does MEDICARE, with all the extra rules and trepidations that they have to go through for Medicare. And moreover, if it is a teaching hospital then you are considered by the government to represent one more of the Medicare patients it is taking care of.
So you do not have private insurance, not have chosen an option of the Medicare program and are paying for a supplement.
I do not think you should distort this issue to the Freepers who are reading this who need to understand the details of the system we are fighting as we try to fight against government healthcare and welfare programs, and I hope my comment here clear it up for those who do not understand.
Bob, Bob, Bob....
MediCare is the best deal going! Without it, most seniors couldn’t afford health insurance at all. You should thank your lucky stars that you going through the coverage now, versus the next generation. You and I and millions of others will use up all the available funds as they are paid into the fund, nothing with be left.
Rush is basically saying that we should pay a little more. You’ve posted nothing to dispute that position.
Rush said it is 'free'... now stick your head back in the sand and go to sleep.
I have never heard Rush say what you claim about Medicare.
You may be going south on us. If you can find his quote, provide a link.
Well, I am not trying to convince anyone but Rush. He knows whether he has said it or not. If so - and he sees the post - hopefully he will reconsider his position; if not, he will ignore the post. Of course, if he doesn't see or hear of it at all it will be like trying to get an e-mail to him on his 24/7 mail site: hopeless.
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