Wow, what is that person smoking??
What a Wanker.
James Wanker????
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
You F’n moron!!! Nobody LOVES SS and Medicare. They are BROKE!!!!! DRs HATE Medicare!!!!! SS is a travesty in that is was never intended to be 100% of retirement!! It causes people to not plan!!
Idiot Moron!!!!! Those two “examples” are going to break the back of our nation. That’s why you like them.
Argument over.
We have ALWAYS been at war with Eurasia!
Orwell was a prophet.
Which will make rates go up 5 to 10%
The so-called "donut hole" in prescription drug plans for seniors will disappear.
Which will cause Medicare drug plan premiums to go up at least 25% or more.
Small businesses will get tax credits to extend coverage to employees. Which aren't enough to cover the cost, so they will be ignored.
Children will be able to remain on parents' insurance plans until age 26.
Another 5 to 8% rate increase
Insurers won't be able to set lifetime caps on coverage.
Another 5 to 8% rate increase
Coverage will include preventive care. 85% of the cost will be rolled into premiums by law
People will not lose coverage because they get sick.
They never did.
Medicare will be expanded in rural areas.
Can't wait for the tax increases for THAT one.
More affordable coverage will be available to early retirees.
complete lie
YGTBSM.
(OMGLOLWTF)
No he is wrong. I remember the against Medicare arguements as my family used to read that stuff out loud and discuss it. The against turned out to be right in that it would cost much more. What is different is that most Americans were and still are against this awful bill and our governent went a head and passed it anyway.
It is just amazing that these idiots think endless amounts of everything will be free forever. They do not grasp that there is not, nor can there be, the money to pay for their $100T fantasies.
More and more they are like insane people, a starving man in the desert who demands a sandwich because he *wants* one! It is a reliance on magic to provide. That if he prays to the right god, or just keeps screaming, somehow, some way, a sandwich will appear before him.
The wrirter sure lives up to his last name doesn’t he?
That's possibly true - that doesn't make it a good thing.
There is truth in the claim that people like Medicare. This simply means that they fear the sudden removal of a source of income which is confiscated from their neighbors.
Even nominal conservatives are seduced by this. If the economic practice of a nation is to feed off your neighbor, then we grow accustomed to it, and fear a change in this practice.
The real question is “would we be better off if the nation had never established Medicare?”
We should be considering a Constitutional amendment abolishing all transfer payments / entitlement programs.
“Congress shall pass no law where money or goods or service is given to an individual based on need or condition.”
Mr. Wanker, please keep your hands where we can see them.
Hopefully obamacare will kill this guy!
I was doing research on ‘the original cost of medicare’ and choked on this thread, comparing ‘obamacare’ estimates against medicare estimates:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6176555
Remember, I don’t write this stuff...
When Medicare, the government’s health care system for the elderly and disabled, was first enacted in 1965, lawmakers predicted it would cost $9 billion by 1990. In fact, it cost $67 billion that year.
The excuses follow: ...The people in charge then had NO reason to suspect that over a generation & a half, that the biggest burden of tax-paying would shift to the ones least able to bear the burden.
and: ...They had no reason to suspect that future administrations would willingly exchange needed tax revenues for lobbyist money, tied to quid pro quo that stripped away rules needed to make this a fair society.
I read this in all but stunned silence, and stopped my research right there. The fact that Republicans said this would happen - doesn’t matter. They blame the R’s for the cost problems...and will continue to blame them now (even though it is the conservatives that complain the loudest now - not the ‘Republicans’)...
James WANKER??
LOL!!