Glad to hear there's no problem with SS, Medicare, or the debt. What the heck have I been worrying about?
The new Demonrat mantra! Woof, woof, let granny eat dog food...spoof on 'let them eat cake'. obama's war on seniors See the links in post 43-46 and on the last page.
Expanding support for families balancing work with caring for elderly relatives with a $102.5 million Caregiver Initiative adding $52.5 million in funding to Department of Health and Human Services caregiver support programs that provide temporary respite care, counseling, training, and referrals to critical services. The administration says the extra funding will allow nearly 200,000 additional caregivers to be served and 3 million more hours of respite care to be provided. It also adds $50 million to programs that provide transportation help, adult day care, and in-home services, such as aides to help seniors bathe and cook, help which eases the burden for family members and helps seniors stay in their homes.
Even the commie rage MJ is reporting the cut and gut of SS/Medicare.
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/01/obama-puts-social-security-chopping-block
Tricare for Life (retired over 65 retired Military health ins is getting a BIG NEW fee DOD bill, This option would help reduce the cost of TFL, as well as cost for Medicare, by INTRODUCING minimum out of pocket requirements for beneficiaries. Under this option, TFL would NOT cover any of the first $525 of an enrollee's cost-sharing liabilities for calendar year 2011 and would limit coverage to 50 percent of the next $4725 in Medicare cost sharing that the beneficiary incurred. (Because all further cost sharing would be covered by TFL, enrollees could not pay more than $2,888 in cost sharing in that year.