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it's people like you that have driven borregokid into a state of utter insanity in which he continuously howls about old people, the tea party, medicare, medicaid, VA, tricare, oxygen tanks and mobility scooters.
keep up the good work
Notice the poster didn't also comment that he/she paid premiums for 30 years before even able to use medicare and is still paying premiums.
Umm, "revenue neutral" is yet to be demonstrated in the real world. Medicare ended up costing 1,000% more than expected, over a period of years.
And it is means tested--but not age-neutral. The young get screwed into the ground, for some reason, for the benefit of the older. Part of Obama's stealth generational war on the young, which also featured spraying money as if from a fire house at his supporters (Solyndra, as one of a hundred examples), money that was borrowed from the future.
You're welcome, kids! You voted for him!
This is a new one. Please clarify this.
"Part of Obama's stealth generational war on the young",
The other older Americans who are winners under our health care policies are the Tea Partiers. The programs they support Medicare, Tricare, VA, Medicaid for Seniors cost taxpayers at least $750 billion above what ever their co-pays and deductibles are. The Tea Party talks out of one side of their mouth while holding their hands out for the government hand out. Then they claim they are entitled to it...all of it. The ACA next year will be about 50 billion...the programs the Tea Party supports $750 billion. You have to love the Tea Party for their willingness to stop socialism even if its revenue neutral.
Why do you spend so much time ragging on those on medicare, medicaid etc, on one posting and then on the very next one, celebrate policies which make these handouts available.
Your postings flip flop faster than a dying fish.. Anything to hate..
ACA is not means tested in the traditional sense. No one is denied insurance, just the subsidies. You need to be more factual about the nuances in your attempt at objectivity.
There was never any attempt at objectivity. Not even superficial objectivity.
Just one more "I hate Republicans, old people and the Tea Party" threads by this dude. Same sh*t, dfferent day.
Heres a group that would probably lean Republican. It looks like they are the biggest winners under the ACA.
You can look at this two ways they are taking money from the young to pay for their health care or they are simply keeping their taxes and using it to pay for health care. Anyone wants to whine about transfering money from young to old you can start with Medicare which borrows 240 billion a year and is barely means tested. The ACA is means tested and revenue neutral.
Pftttt. Looks like some older people are NOT the winners under the ACA act. Our premiums doubled and we have a wimpy policy to look forward to. At least we have paid into Medicare unlike the ACA which will rip dollars out of others hands to support some. But we are not the winners here.....I know quite a few others in our boat as well.
The other older Americans who are winners under our health care policies are the Tea Partiers. The programs they support Medicare, Tricare, VA, Medicaid for Seniors cost taxpayers at least $750 billion above what ever their co-pays and deductibles are. The Tea Party talks out of one side of their mouth while holding their hands out for the government hand out. Then they claim they are entitled to it...all of it. The ACA next year will be about 50 billion...the programs the Tea Party supports $750 billion. You have to love the Tea Party for their willingness to stop socialism even if its revenue neutral.
This bill was passed by your party and signed by your president. Whine all you want to, but it is what it is.
Had this president done what he said he was going to do by cutting much waste out of Medicare, we would be in far better shape. But, I have been on the planet a long time and witnessed your DNC using the elderly for votes for decades by promising more and more Medicare perks, like endless knee and hip replacements, endless motorized scooters etc. Your party is the one responsible for this bloated mess. The GOP were the evil ones as depicted by the DNC as wanting to get rid of it. So what is it you want again......If you do not get rid of it or at least overhaul it then you youngsters have to pay for it.
I'm one of the older Americans, you speak of. My Medicare bill is $146.96 per month. I do appreciate you younger folks helping out. Keep up the good work, cause I plan on living a long time. And yep, I lean Republican.
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Originally Posted by uggabugga
it's people like you that have driven borregokid into a state of utter insanity in which he continuously howls about old people, the tea party, medicare, medicaid, VA, tricare, oxygen tanks and mobility scooters.
keep up the good work
I think most of the Tea Party types on Medicare actually think they are paying for all of their health care with their $133 monthly payment and past payroll contributions. They love to complain about the ACA meanwhile they are pulling out three times what they put into Medicare. Young people will pay $240 billion out of general revenues or maybe borrowing from China to cover Medicare this year. So much for the thrifty Tea Party types.
This bill was passed by your party and signed by your president. Whine all you want to, but it is what it is.
The OP will never believe this, it's all the repubs fault for doing this....oh and don't forget bush either....
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