Medicare Strengthened by Health Care Reform, Trustees Say

How many years did it take before everyone realized what an albatross was hung about the necks of the citizens with the FDR New Deal and Social Sercurity, or the LBJ Great Society and Medicare? You will feel the fallout of the Obama initiatives much, much, sooner. It will not be good.

The health care reform law will have many positive aspects.

This article leaves out and does not account for all the additional people that will be added to medicare and Medicaid since they will never be able to afford private medical insurance. I received a quote for a healthy family of three with todays rates at 879.00 per month. the insurance companies have almost 4 more years to raise their rates be fore this system goes into effect. Even at 879.00 per month a family making 80,000 per year would have a tough time making these premium payments forget a family only making 50,000. Watch the hospital and private insurance companies rates go sky high when the hospitals would be forced to treat people at government insurance rates.

Of course, there is no mention of the quality of care, which is greatly reduced. Like all bureaucrats, they are primarily concerned with the bureaucracy, not the service provided.

If the doctors take a 21% cut in payments! If the 500 billion does not come out! If the states do not win their cases at the Supreme Court! If you believe everything that you are told. The trustees who have been in place for some time have allowed all the fraud to take place without any effort to stop it. The raiding of SS by Congress.

These are the many things that stand in the way of SS's future. Congress is willing to spend the SS money but not willing to stand up and cut spending everywhere else. Now they say the will pay for the new jobs stimulus by reducing welfare to the states. So just who are they trying to help. The truth is they are only protecting Union members in order to do their political payback for the elections. This new jobs bill does nothing for those out of work but instead is a payout to the unions and their members.

If nothing else you should know the hole health care thing is a scam because of the slow pace of its implementation. So when things go wrong with it, there are fall guys and people to blame that are not even elected officials anymore. It really is a pretty clever scheme.

I thought the 21% drop in medicare pay to doctors took effect in June? This article says that is does not begin until the fall. Does anyone know if this is true and why? I can speculate but not sure...

Why are there posters who are complaining about this health care bill and Medicare in general, saying that they are actually being forced to sign up for Medicare when they reach 65 years of age? This is not true. You do not have to sign up for Medicare. No one is forcing you
However, I do hope that you do not get sick and you do not have Medicare-----you will be wiped out with one major sickness----either you or a loved one
Funny, but those that are so against these "big government" programs, have no problem using them when they need them. then "big government" is not so bad

They are slated to take upwards of 500 billion from Medicare to help finance this Bill. So please tell us how this is supposed to " Help " Medicare?

I would not trust these trustee's. I assume they are the same people
who watched Congress raid both of these programs.