You turn 65 and then you must go into a Medicare plan, and you pay a fortune more for far fewer benefits

What a difference a year makes. You are one of the millions of Americans, who don't have company health insurance. Damned with a pre-existing condition, you carry so-called Obamacare (www.healthcare.gov). Next year, you turn 65 and must enroll in Medicare. There's no good news, just bad news for you. Obamacare is a far better plan … Continue reading You turn 65 and then you must go into a Medicare plan, and you pay a fortune more for far fewer benefits

Cut Medicare and Social Security Club is back again – this time pointing its daggers at Donald Trump

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH69lgidOhM The Committee for a Responsible Budget (CFRB) is at it again in their quest to cut Social Security and Medicare. Cloaked behind a lace curtain of "bipartisan" concern, the committee includes impotent deficit hawks, sharks and other carnivores of ill repute. Of course, at the top of the list is Pete Peterson, a very, … Continue reading Cut Medicare and Social Security Club is back again – this time pointing its daggers at Donald Trump

Heritage hates Obamacare – plans “Impoverishcare”

Healthcare.gov has my email address, because I once searched for plan information on the site, and now the artificial intelligence - or just perhaps an algorithm - has decided to pester me to sign up or pay a penalty. Having fooled the system (because I can't get Obamacare since I passed my 65th birthday), I … Continue reading Heritage hates Obamacare – plans “Impoverishcare”

Medicare age hike to 68 is Heritage GOP plan

With the exceptions of Mike Huckabee and Donald Trump, all of the Republican candidates for President want to change Medicare so that it costs you much more, but guarantees profits for campaign-funding insurance companies. The details are in the Heritage Foundation plan to replace Medicare with a "premium support" plan in which you buy Medicare … Continue reading Medicare age hike to 68 is Heritage GOP plan

Medicare tax gets you mandatory program for health insurance that costs fortune in co-pays, deductibles

The usual self-centered politicians and their masters at Fix the Debt, Libertarian Caucus, Tea Party and Fox News, along with a pack of pitiful former government officials like Ed Rendell, this week bemoaned the so-called "doc fix", which brings Medicare payments to providers up to miserable levels, instead of a 21%  cut. That reduction in … Continue reading Medicare tax gets you mandatory program for health insurance that costs fortune in co-pays, deductibles

$6,000 healthcare deductible lowers birth rate in the U.S. and keeps many from marrying

Some pundits have recently commented on other blogs that the birth rate seems to be declining among middle class citizens. In my opinion much of this terrible trend is caused by economics - newly minted healthcare insurance plans that no longer just require co-pays, but have a huge first contribution.When a family has to pay … Continue reading $6,000 healthcare deductible lowers birth rate in the U.S. and keeps many from marrying