Medicare payments are deducted from every pay check and social security check so you really don’t notice it’s gone. It’s the supplement that you really need and comes out of pocket. Well, the money to the health insurance companies also comes out of pocket, and that is a LOT more than the part B payments. (I went from $1126/mo to $93/mo in a day ((one person, $10,000 deductable)). HUGE difference.)
Sooo, to make everybody available for Medicare, you have to take the payments out of the welfare checks and if you’re unemployed and don’t get any benefits,I guess you’d just have to find a way to fund it.
You have to pay into the system to get something out of it. That’s true even in Canada.
Well, that’s Alberta. Gee, I thought I had to pay for it when I was there back in the early 80’s. Thanks for the update. And your welcome, I guess :-) We seem to spend money on everything but ourselves.
Yeah, that helps us a lot. Too bad we can’t get off it; rather like being on a diet with all those food ads on TV. That doesn’t make sense, does it? I’d better get some sleep.
That is so, but our infrastructure has gone to pot and we are very vulnerable. Somebody cut a cable (conflicting stories if it was east of here or south) and the whole area was without land lines until this morning. Those on DSL had no internet. How dependent we have become on all this stuff; our grandparents would not be proud even tho it has made life a whole bunch easier.
How are you keeping the infrastructure up there, Doc? Are your grid lines secure?
On second thought, I retract that statement-the one about spending money on everything but ourselves. I guess I should say it hasn’t been spent very wisely.
LOL ! It is dismaying to know that most people in Congress do not read the bills themselves - whatever party. Great cartoon jab at our legislative process’s foibles.
kennethcwarren64 over 14 years ago
It is funny.
Charles Brobst Premium Member over 14 years ago
Just make Medicare available to anybody who wants it.
Magnaut over 14 years ago
no…make…him take medicare
MurphyHerself over 14 years ago
Medicare payments are deducted from every pay check and social security check so you really don’t notice it’s gone. It’s the supplement that you really need and comes out of pocket. Well, the money to the health insurance companies also comes out of pocket, and that is a LOT more than the part B payments. (I went from $1126/mo to $93/mo in a day ((one person, $10,000 deductable)). HUGE difference.)
Sooo, to make everybody available for Medicare, you have to take the payments out of the welfare checks and if you’re unemployed and don’t get any benefits,I guess you’d just have to find a way to fund it.
You have to pay into the system to get something out of it. That’s true even in Canada.
MurphyHerself over 14 years ago
Well, that’s Alberta. Gee, I thought I had to pay for it when I was there back in the early 80’s. Thanks for the update. And your welcome, I guess :-) We seem to spend money on everything but ourselves.
MurphyHerself over 14 years ago
Yeah, that helps us a lot. Too bad we can’t get off it; rather like being on a diet with all those food ads on TV. That doesn’t make sense, does it? I’d better get some sleep.
4uk4ata over 14 years ago
@ MurphyHerself:
“We seem to spend money on everything but ourselves.”
Depends on your definition of “ourselves”, I guess. Some people have been having a very good time in the last 20 years or so…
MurphyHerself over 14 years ago
That is so, but our infrastructure has gone to pot and we are very vulnerable. Somebody cut a cable (conflicting stories if it was east of here or south) and the whole area was without land lines until this morning. Those on DSL had no internet. How dependent we have become on all this stuff; our grandparents would not be proud even tho it has made life a whole bunch easier.
How are you keeping the infrastructure up there, Doc? Are your grid lines secure?
On second thought, I retract that statement-the one about spending money on everything but ourselves. I guess I should say it hasn’t been spent very wisely.
vhammon over 14 years ago
LOL ! It is dismaying to know that most people in Congress do not read the bills themselves - whatever party. Great cartoon jab at our legislative process’s foibles.