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Originally Posted by TuborgP
Regardless of income no one living any length of time after 65 is paying more into Medicare then the they get back. In fact those over the the threshold have longer life expectancy as they have probably had better health care all of their life. It is not as if services being provided to them will be diminished. Scroll down to page 8 of the link and the scale is there. From 170K-214K you pay $42 more a month for your basic coverage and $12.10 more for the prescription drug plan. What will take many over the 170K threshold will be mandatory RMD's and or picking up full SS benefits or normal distributions. As MathJak says have the problem with a smile. At that point of life if you are stressing the politics of life over enjoying your 170K plus retirement have a go at it. I mean being at that point means a lot of things have gone right and that is a desirable outcome.
http://www.ssa.gov/pubs/EN-05-10536.pdf
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To be fair,
almost no one. If you earn $100k a year for 40 years and remain healthy, and then get hit by a bus 2 months after you begin getting benefits, and go to the morgue straight away, I'm sure you paid in more than you got out.
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