Barry and the ‘RATS need to find a way to pay for all of the free stuff for the Xenos and “refugees” they’re importing into America. Somebody needs to go to jail.
Well we do have to care for the bums and the illegals. Only fair (sarc)
Why should a Republican Congress do anything to stop this?
Medicare is my primary by law and I never had a choice. And they say premiums will increase. Seniors living on a shoestring have this mandatory medicare payment hanging over their head.
For a healthy senior trying to pay their own way, Medicare is a tax burden mandated by the Feds, not a blessing.
But, if you retired before age 67 and have retiree health care from your employer, most of them REQUIRE that you join Medicare at age 65, and the retiree health care plan becomes "secondary". If I understand the article, these folks (plus the ones that choose to wait as late as age 70 to start SS benefits) will bear the brunt of the increase.
I wonder if anyone has done an analysis to determine if there is an advantage to starting their Social Security benefits earlier, to avoid the premium increase? For some people, the lower SS benefit may be offset by the freezing of Medicare premiums -- especially if this problem occurs in multiple consecutive years.
I’m dreading to see next year’s copays.
do you have supplemental insurance to cover what medicare doesn’t cover? just curious how much that increased.
Nice going, communist bastards in this administration!
I have similar but not identical numbers
My monthly medicare advantage premiums rose from $33 to $39 or 18%
But my maximum out of pocket decreased from $6,700 to $5900 or 13%
There is no logic that I can see but the numbers are numbers
there are other increases to co pays for hospital stays etc
My costs for the rental of my propane tank have gone up 60.6%.
My monthly vehicle insurance has gone up over 6%.
Last accident was in 1966. No tickets.
Don’t drink—Don’t smoke & don’t have a cell phone.
FREEZE our income, saying the inflation has been flat & then double Medicate premiums.
It is already a nightmare to find a doctor. Many have left the medical system entirely.
Sure is evident that Medicare premiums are NOT included in the calculations for inflation at the Fed level.
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Stephanie Armour And Anne Tergesen need to understand someone has to pay for the ‘needs’ of illegals flooding our country. And it might as well be Americans who worked their whole lives...
We can understand seniors ending their earning years and needing the zero plans.
There are also a number of people who are truly disabled and we should understand their needs as well.
Our problems arise in all these other groups jumping on the band wagon.
#1 Probably women with children who have no marriage or support from their sperm donor.
#2 Low income people who either work gray market jobs not showing income or who don’t want to work to remain on the dole.
They don’t care if they are tagged for life to owe stuff because rarely do those kinds of people aspire to work long hard hours to earn new cars or homes.
So we need to end free stuff for able bodied younger people and we have to inspire women to quit opening their legs to allow men to get them pregnant out of wedlock.
Poverty at this point should not be enabled so much that nobody wants to work.
Those issues along with expensive court actions are why you and other see these costs go up and are hurting IMO.
I am working and all, but even I am blown away by the costs these days.
I pay $5000 a year for my lower insurance. Lost my doctor of course and was thrown into the exchange.
Bronze plan with $6500 deductible is $5000 a year. $11,500 if I need to use it.
Cheating neighbors were bragging they falsify stuff and pay NOTHING for a plan 7 tiers over my own.
The system is messed up.
The middle class get the bad plans and the people who don’t earn a living get much better plans for free. That is wrong.
Some of these premiums, evidently, depend on the state you live in. I had a supplement before leaving North Carolina that was about $160 monthly. After moving to Florida, I get Medicare Advantage for $0. Some plans down here even rebate part of your Medicare premium. Go figure.