[Dan Nunn]

Your car insurance doesn’t pay for gas and oil changes, why should your health insurance pay for routine doctor visits?

Obamacare killed the catastrophic plan.

[brityank]

Obamacare killed the catastrophic plan.

Health Insurance got destroyed long before obama. It used to be catastrophic coverage - you paid the Doctors office charges and medications yourself, Blue Shield type policies covered you on admittance to a health care facility, and Blue Cross covered your hospital costs. Just like your car, you paid your own way for maintenance and feeding and basic repairs.

I'd love to go back to that!

FYI - we all got screwed by Johnson!

BRIEF HISTORY OF THE MEDICARE PROGRAM


1945 President Harry Truman sends a message to Congress asking for legislation establishing a national health insurance plan.

Two decades of debate ensue, with opponents warning of the dangers of "socialized medicine." By the end of Truman's administration, he had backed off from a plan for universal coverage, but administrators in the Social Security system and others had begun to focus on the idea of a program aimed at insuring Social Security beneficiaries.

July 30, 1965 Medicare and its companion program Medicaid, (which insures indigent recipients), are signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson as part of his "Great Society."

Ex-president Truman is the first to enroll in Medicare.

Medicare Part B premium is $3 per month.

SeniorJournal.com