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Why do you think Congress should Keep Medicare Fair?

We asked the question "why do you think Congress should Keep Medicare Fair" online and received over 2000 responses. We'll be sharing these periodically in the Journal section of Keep Medicare Fair.

Yvonne wrote:

"I'm one of the lucky ones, ‘retiring’ after working for 50 years, the first 19 years as a public health nurse, and (now) 31 years as a family/adult nurse practitioner (Yes, that adds up to 50.) I have been receiving Social Security and Medicare benefits for 7 years, and have supplemental health insurance and a drug program through my husband's retirement plan. However, we are both on fixed incomes, neither of which have increased significantly during retirement. Each time I get a (very small) increase in Social Security, it is more than consumed by the increase in Medicare premiums. In retirement, we pay more out-of-pocket medical expenses than at any time during our insurance-covered work years. At 72, I am remarkably healthy, having only one well-controlled chronic disease. My husband, however, has progressive cardiovascular disease, with constant need for meticulous, continuous follow-up and treatment. Because of inflation, recession, increasing fuel costs, the housing and banking crisis,etc., our cost of living, like all families, has risen significantly. However, our income has not."

Have you gone to KeepMedicareFair.org and signed the petition or sent a letter to your member of Congress?
 

Added: May 14, 2008
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mjshadow
mjshadow says:
I am all for better medicare changes and ideally doctors and nurses need better compensation but this bill includes illegal aliens and their illegal families as well and that is where a big chunk of money is going now and the other chunks are being disbursed by less than bipartisan lobbyists. leave all the illegals out send them home till they become AMericans.and stop supporting their illegal governments with our tax dollars and march on .I will be the first on the list .So far I cant even get a complete rundown on the bill. to much ****in the way someone have a direct line to this bill. also . I believe all men and women and children are equal but seems like a lot of our neighboring countries don't
Posted: July 12, 2008 12:49PM EDT
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