Medicare premiums (drug, insurance, cost, politician)

[GMarcan920]

Just wanted to thank President Biden for his refusal to lower the Medicare premiums from the highest increase ever.

And the increase was to cover a drug that has not been approved for use for Alzheimer’s!

With inflation now over 8%, this kind of an increase wreaks havoc with a senior trying to make ends meet.

There are so many things I want to say about Biden, but I’d likely be unable to post anything, so I’ll just behave and leave it at that!

[katharsis]

More on this here: https://www.aarp.org/health/medicare...b-premium.html

[workingclasshero]

did you really expect him (or any politician) to lower the premiums??


that was the whole argument AGAINST medicare for all... it would cost 6 trillion a year, and its cost would INCREASE every year

[ansible90]

Originally Posted by workingclasshero

did you really expect him (or any politician) to lower the premiums??


that was the whole argument AGAINST medicare for all... it would cost 6 trillion a year, and its cost would INCREASE every year

Everything increases every year. What else is new?

[Lillie767]

Originally Posted by ansible90

Everything increases every year. What else is new?

Not my pension. That's what called living on a fixed income.

[workingclasshero]

Originally Posted by ansible90

Everything increases every year. What else is new?

yes...and when you have years like this with inflation being plus10% that is a big jump in overall costs

6 trillion plus 10% is......6.6 trillion the NEW cost for this year... and then comes next year (and IF (big IF) inflation was only 2%..still would end up being 6.73 tr next year

btw we only pull in 4 tr in revenue with our 5t budget..imagine adding 6t to our already 5t budget

that's why you will never see M4A or singlepayer.... it would be impossible to fund

[TMSRetired]

It was because of that new expensive drug that they decided not to cover after all. But I don't think premiums will get adjusted lower

[mojo101]

Originally Posted by Lillie767

Not my pension. That's what called living on a fixed income.

Didnt SSN give everyone a raise?

[mirage98de]

That 40 billion we just gave away to Ukraine probably could have helped with that

[mojo101]

When was is over,600 billions to rebuild Ukraine