Posted on 08/16/2009 5:03:02 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
That is not the way it works with my plan. Looking at a recent bill for $286. Medicare payed 186.69 and my insurance paid the rest. I payed nothing.
Not to be snarky, but try to understand that the rest of us do not have that type of insurance.
Be grateful for what you have, and say a prayer for all of those taxpayers who fund it.
No wonder the Fed does not want an audit no telling what will show up. And you are right the sheep to the slaughter reference is accurate.
WOW.. your very luck to have that good of the supplemental plan
The truth is that government employees have better benefits than the private sector, by and large. And that includes pay. It really is unsustainable.
The left comes unglued when it’s suggested, but how do we get rid of an agency, any agency, that is ineffective and not achieving stated goals and purposes? Remember how unhinged the left was concerning the elimination of the education department.
Just as bad, congress (Senate and House) passes automatic raises for both pay and butgets so they can claim they have no control over increased costs.
I can see many of the problems but I have to admit I have no idea how this can be turned around in my lifetime. One has to wonder if a road-map to reform could be created, step by step, to reduce government?
I figure a 10% cut of the entire budget across the board for about 10 years should get us back to where we should be as a conservative nation.
There are just too many things that big govt. is engaged in that private enterprise could do better and should. Maybe e even the border who knows.
Here ya go: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/16/white-house-e-mail/. They did use that WH web page cover, saying individuals or groups had submitted the addresses—which says to me they know full well their minions in their friendly political organizations gave them the addresses. By submission through the solicitation on their web page? My guess would be no, but they’ll never be called on it.
And how are we to know that is true?
They are a pack of liars, and they have had enough time to come up with an explanation and get one of their minions to submit the names who were mailed.
Pffft.
Which would also be illegal. Where is today's Woodward and Bernstein?*
Oh, yeah, they're out investigating those tea party protestors to prove that what Nancy Pelosi said was true. And to find that rascal whose been putting up those Obama Joker posters!
* Nowadays, All The President's Men are working FOR the Washington Post!
My objection to even bringing up Medicare is that their side is using it now to indicate that social programs like this are okay, people like them, etc
It’s better if we don’t even mention Medicare. Maybe it shouldn’t have been enacted and it certainly needs to be looked at but I have heard liberal hosts accuse health care opponents by saying, well, you voted for Medicare or would you vote for Medicare again, etc.
Better concentrate on the problem at hand and not air our gripes with Medicare while we’re fighting this greater menace.
LOL, yeah!!
The student at the Montana town hall asked the president how he expected for profit insurance companies to compete with the government with it’s unlimited funds, no overhead, and no need to cut costs.
Out come the example of how well two private companies, UPS and FedEx are so much more profitable than the post office.
Major Garrett has been pretty dogged on this issue.
Good for him! :-)
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