Posted on 12/23/2013 8:49:54 AM PST by kristinn
When I became eligible for Medicare, I already had private insurance through my husband’s retirement plan. I was told that private insurance was much better than Medicare and that I should try to stay on it as long as I could. HOWEVER, the insurance company I was covered under informed me that, since I was eligible for Medicare - regardless of whether or not I had it, they would only pay secondary and I would have to pay what Medicare would have paid. They essentially FORCED me to go on Medicare and drop them!
If you notice, the Obamacare plans don’t let you even know about premiums much less sign up for them if you are over 64. You ONLY have Medicare as your insurance choice.
Well, isn’t that SPECIAL!!?
Correct. Medicare becomes your primary insurance automatically. It makes sense from the insurance company's point of view since the government picks up most of the costs and then they can determine how much more they are willing to cover that the government doesn't. Your insurance premiums would skyrocket 65 and over.
Nine out of ten Medicare recipients carry supplemental insurance--and for good reason.
You don’t have standing until you’re forced to actually pay the tax.
Rules are meant to be broken. Some are to be ignored altogether.
F U B O !
We need to spread that letter. Send it to Ted Cruz.
No need to send it to any RATS, they could care less.
Same here under my wife's plan. The insurance company wanted to be secondary, cheaper for them. Works out OK though. Medicare is primary.
I really don't understand why people don't want good health insurance. Especially married people.
I’d laugh, but this exercise in desperation by the administration is costing the taxpayers of this country way too much on many different levels.
ah they thought of Almost everthing...
I need insurance for my family but the cost is much more expensive than in the past and put it outside my budget.
More than that, I refuse to participate in ObamaCare or “obey” its arbitrary deadlines and unconstitutional penalties.
(And I fart in the general direction of the cowardly Chief Justice who defied all logic and reason (I won’t even mention “original intent” of the authors of ObamaCare, which is a matter of record) and let them construe it to be a tax when CLEARLY it was intended to be an unconstitutional PENALTY.)
(And I won’t even mention that construed as a tax it’s still unconstitutional as it originated in the Senate whereas the Constitution requires all taxes to originate in the House. But I split hairs.)
Why not? She's one of the white hut "staff"
Saving to repost...everywhere.
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this executive branch seems more than a bit CONFUSED as to who makes laws doent... HE!
Redistribution. Illegals, deadbeats, and elitists benefit.
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