Rising Hegemon
Mr. Ryan's proposal would apply to those currently under the age of 55, and for those Americans would convert Medicare into a "premium support" system. Participants from that group would choose from an array of private insurance plans when they reach 65 and become eligible, and the government would pay about the first $15,000 in premiums. Those who are poorer or less healthy would receive bigger payments than others.
At age 65 even present day, you'll be lucky if $15,000 pays for one year of health insurance premiums. Look at anyone who is fired at 60 or more years old and their COBRA premium and you'll know. Good luck with those deductibles and co-pays too. That first bypass or stroke treatment, well in a decade coverage max, and if not, good luck $2,500 a month in premiums. At this is for ten years into the future. In ten years? You'll be lucky to buy four months of insurance before you're paying insurance out of your own pocket.
The poor and elderly are pretty much cast out on an ice shelf in the ocean under this plan.
But hey, rich assholes will be just fine.
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Libertarian/conservative Soylent Green is poor and old people.
Fred Flintstone said....
Rich assholes will be just fine, everyone else can drop dead.
Thanks assholes! I'll be 54 this year.
Encouraged by how well their intervention in the Middle East turned out, it seems that Republicans have now decided to invade and overthrow the Middle Class.
Need we point out that this is the same political party that transformed a balanced budget and actual surplus into the greatest deficit in American history and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression?
ryan is pure evil. WI produces such men once in a while.
One unexpected illness, and your insurance gets cancelled, your life savings get flushed, and you are left old and sick to deal with it.
You'd have to be pretty damn rich to escape this risk. A million in the bank won't be enough.
By definition, a voucher system--because of the difference between public and private administrative costs--will mean a reduction in services even if the system costs were to remain constant, which, under this plan, won't (they'll be steadily decreased).
This is nothing more than a transfer of public funds to for-profit insurers ala the Medicare prescription plan.
[humming Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi" as ironic commentary on Tea Partiers]
Thanks assholes! I'll be 54 this year.
Sorry sucka. I just hit 56. Whooohoooo, I get mine! I win!
/Teapublican sensibilities-mentality
Yeah, well there won't be any goddamned ice shelves left for us to be pushed out onto.
Fucking repukes.
well there won't be any goddamned ice shelves left
No worries, BP is working on a tar-ball raft technology.
" Thanks assholes! I'll be 54 this year." ..... You lucky Bastard. All I've got is Medicare, run by our Government ......(sarcasm alert- major sarcasm)
It appears the Republicans are not content to have brought war to the middle east. No, over there won't do anymore. Bring it on, over here, is their mantra.
Women making death threats in WIsconsin?
Our Men appear to be in short supply. These R's want to shorten our lives, and bring want and misery down upon us.
vox
Hey, Ryan is just playing the heavy.
Now Hopey McChangeless and his "fiscal responsibility" commission don't seem so bad, ehh?
Please, Hopey, cut our Social Security. Save us from those mean Republicans!!!
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Look at anyone who is fired at 60 or more years old and their COBRA premium and you'll know.
Um, 60?
Try 40.
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