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House GOP Considers Privatizing Medicare
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| January 27, 2011
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Posted on 01/27/2011 3:34:33 PM PST by Walts Ice Pick
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To: oh8eleven
Well, we spend much more on Medicare than on Medicaid.
Both need to be scrapped, though.
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posted on
01/27/2011 4:04:11 PM PST
by
Walts Ice Pick
("I'm not going to shut up!" - Sarah Palin)
To: oh8eleven
They say that Black people, as a percentage of the population, receive less benefits from SS because they die earlier. So, I guess if you don’t live to collect your SS, you don’t collect on medi-care, either.
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posted on
01/27/2011 4:04:23 PM PST
by
Eva
To: EGPWS
The private sector would just pillage and tear it apart over time. And our government hasn't? It has to be ended but it has to be done orderly. It will take a generation to accomplish this in a way that does not bring anarchy and harm to the vulnerable. As for private sector pillaging? There is federal prisons. Insure it if we must the same way FDIC insures our bank accounts. But fraud at any level should be punished to the fullest extent of the law just as some of our congresscritters who have raided Medicare & SS should be out of office or even in a prison.
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posted on
01/27/2011 4:04:55 PM PST
by
cva66snipe
(Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
To: Eva
They say that Black people, as a percentage of the population, receive less benefits from SS because they die earlier.
Well, maybe it has more to do with a high percent of their population that doesn't graduate from high school, ends up in jail, doesn't earn as much when they do work or claim welfare as a career choice.
The demise of "Black" people in the last 40 years is appalling - and they have no one to blame but themselves.
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posted on
01/27/2011 4:21:29 PM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: cva66snipe
And our government hasn't?Nope, those in government are pure as the driven snow and will spend eternity painstakingly striving to do what is best for those in need without even a thought for themselves.
Government is perfect and compassionate.
The private sector can't say the same.
We as private citizens need government to help regulate us to keep us out of trouble.
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posted on
01/27/2011 4:28:08 PM PST
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: EGPWS
Actually I trust neither as far as I can see them. LOL. Insurance companies keep a sizable amount of Shysters on hand to find ways either to delay or not to pay.
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posted on
01/27/2011 4:42:40 PM PST
by
cva66snipe
(Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
To: oh8eleven
Where exactly in Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution is the enumerated power found for Congress to run an insurance program for anything, let alone health care?
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posted on
01/27/2011 4:47:24 PM PST
by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: oh8eleven
I've been on it 7 months now and haven't gotten anything except having to pay $110 per month. Yes, I was forced on it. My primary insurer became my secondary. Had I not accepted Medicare, my private insurer would have dropped me like a lead balloon.
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posted on
01/27/2011 6:53:56 PM PST
by
Graybeard58
(Don't tell Obama what comes after a trillion)
To: oh8eleven
Of course it does. The shorter life span is definitely cultural but they would tell you that is because they have been traditionally OPPRESSED by the evil White capitalists and it’s time for some social justice, so “show me the money”.
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posted on
01/27/2011 10:02:39 PM PST
by
Eva
To: Lurker
Never said it was constitutional or not - just that it’s not a free ride as some were claiming.
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posted on
01/28/2011 5:37:37 AM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: GeronL
Some do and some don’t. My pastor paid into the system all his working life. Retired at 65, dropped dead of a massive heart attack before he even drew his first SS check. My late husband died at 57 from a massive heart attack.
The money they paid in to the Medicare system is kept by the Medicare system. Ditto SS.
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posted on
01/28/2011 7:12:23 AM PST
by
GailA
(2012 rally cry DEMOCRATS and RINOS are BAD for the USA!)
To: GailA
MediCare and SS are paid out of the general fund because they are full of IOU’s.
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posted on
01/28/2011 7:14:38 AM PST
by
GeronL
(http://www.stink-eye.net/forum/index.php)
To: oh8eleven
Never said it was constitutional or not That's the ONLY question that should be asked.
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posted on
01/28/2011 8:01:47 AM PST
by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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