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VOUCHER PROGRAM
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Our congress is going to go on a voucher program to show us how it's done and then will do away with their socialist pension program too. (FAT CHANCE OF THAT !!! ) Medicare would be turne
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Re: VOUCHER PROGRAM
posted at August 22, 2012 10:21 AM EDT
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Posts: 585
First: May 28, 2012 Last: May 15, 2013 |
Paul Ryan's wife, Janna, has worked for years as a Private Healthcare Lobbyist for two of the largest companies trying to Dismantle our Medicare ( Cigna & Blue Cross/ Blue Shield). How cozy, but ethically wrong. No wonder Paul Ryan wants to feed us to a Private Healthcare Voucher System. How nice that the Ryan's profit from dismantling our Medicare. Talk about a Conflict Of Interest. Retired Cigna Private Healthcare Company CEO Wendell Potter, recently came clean on the Ryan Voucher system and stated Ryan's plan will make millions more for Insurance Company CEO's and cost seniors thousands more for healthcare. He said Ryan's Voucher system is much more profitable for Private Healthcare Companies, than our current Medicare system is and thats the reason why Ryan wants to dismantle Medicare. Mr. Potter went on to say that Ryan's Voucher premium support payments wont keep up with inflation. This is coming from an insider , who was the CEO of one of the largest Private Healthcare Companies on the planet and Janna Ryan's Boss. Who is Paul Ryan really representing ???Response to Re: VOUCHER PROGRAM: In Response to Re: VOUCHER PROGRAM : NOT AFFECTING THOSE OVER THE AGE OF 55. OKAY---just suppose it did affect you over 55 ....would you like a VOUCHER plan for yourself .... that you are wishing on our children and grandkids ? They won't thank us for throwing them under the bus when they will need these benefits more than we do now....thanks be to the depression that began in 2003. . But, you say, we may just have to renege on our commitments to pay Social Security and Medicare benefit because "we're broke" and the Federal deficit is soaring out of sight. First, of course, we're not "broke." Big corporations and the wealthiest Americans are making more money - and a higher percentage of America's total income - than ever. The fact is that if millionaires and billionaires paid taxes at the same rate they did during the Reagan Administration - and the income they earn clipping coupons on investments were taxed at the same rates as people who work for a living - that would go a long way to eliminating the deficit.
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Re: VOUCHER PROGRAM
posted at August 23, 2012 1:35 PM EDT
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First: August 23, 2012 Last: August 23, 2012 |
I just heard your commerical on TV backing Obamacare and it saddens me because I know AARP knows what effect it will have on older people and yet you are pushing it. You know that care will be given based on age, and that will leave alot of seniors without treatments unless they can pay for it. People do not age at the same rate so age should not enter into it. I am not medicare age,but I hate to see seniors seen as worthless especially by a company that makes so much money off of them. |
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Re: VOUCHER PROGRAM
posted at August 24, 2012 8:56 AM EDT
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In Response to Re: VOUCHER PROGRAM: In Response to Re: VOUCHER PROGRAM : Bernie Sanders is an avowed Socialist so he is somewhat independent of either party,but hardly unbiased. The voucher plan is an alternative ,not a mandate. Karl Posted by krlklar The core beliefs of Bernie Sanders and people LIKE ME and many many others does not mean a Lenin, Castro, or Mao, but a "socialist" who believes in the same things we all love and use....schools, military, libraries, nat'l parks, police--fire -hiway systems . Capitalism cannot exist without some socialism. We need a happy, healthy nation NOT ONE where retirees struggle between buying medication or food, a nation where people who are sick are just doomed to die, and children go hungry. We are at that very place, so are you-all going to say I have mine, I'll continue to use labor of others to benefit me and I could care less what happens to them...they are as expendable as the birth rate continues to rise. |
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Re: VOUCHER PROGRAM
posted at October 30, 2012 9:22 PM EDT
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First: January 3, 2012 Last: March 4, 2013 |
Nt sure I have correct info, but I was told years ago that the government. Decided to co -mingle the s/ s, Medicare funds with the general fund, thus allowing them to use money specifically collected for social security&medicare for their own pet projects. At the time they called it borrowing from s/s&medicare Medicare......supposedly there are" I.O.U." Vouchers for this borrowed money. It has ever been repaid and ths one of the reasons repubs are so anxious to get rid of both.......they don't want to pay it acknowledge now or ever and they don't want what is left separated and put back into the s/s&medicare fund. S/s&medicare m/c can survive if the dirty birds in wash leave their hands out of the system |
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Re: VOUCHER PROGRAM
posted at October 30, 2012 9:37 PM EDT
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I too read about Paul Ryan's wife &!the connection with vouchers and big insurance. What I don't understand is WHY...we seniors are not standing together on any of this. Why are we letting Romney/ Ryan jam this crap down our throats? WHY don't we demand our benefits(social security&medicare Medicare) we paid into it, we deserve it. Make Obama care more user friendly, it can be tweaked First of all we need to demand that theses big insurance companies be reeled in...they are charging us more in premiums and paying the providers less and making obscene profits. There are way to many of us boomers for them to fight us all.......we Ned to unite ad demand to get what we deserve. ...make them make the right changes...... Remember when these ins. Companies start celebrating the profits from 2012 and start counting the even more profits for 20-3at their year end parties after dec. 7th....counting their bonus money, us seniors ill be hoping we made the right Medicare decisions and hoping we will get good coverage, while the ins. Cleo's are drinking champagne and eating lobster....... |
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Re: VOUCHER PROGRAM
posted at October 30, 2012 10:21 PM EDT
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First: May 28, 2012 Last: May 15, 2013 |
Who do you think is more likely to stand up to greedy CEO's and keep affordable healthcare for us ? Mitt Romney, who was a greedy outsourcing CEO himself, or President Obama ? Response to Re: VOUCHER PROGRAM: I too read about Paul Ryan's wife &!the connection with vouchers and big insurance. What I don't understand is WHY...we seniors are not standing together on any of this. Why are we letting Romney/ Ryan jam this crap down our throats? WHY don't we demand our benefits(social security&medicare Medicare) we paid into it, we deserve it. Make Obama care more user friendly, it can be tweaked First of all we need to demand that theses big insurance companies be reeled in...they are charging us more in premiums and paying the providers less and making obscene profits. There are way to many of us boomers for them to fight us all.......we Ned to unite ad demand to get what we deserve. ...make them make the right changes...... Remember when these ins. Companies start celebrating the profits from 2012 and start counting the even more profits for 20-3at their year end parties after dec. 7th....counting their bonus money, us seniors ill be hoping we made the right Medicare decisions and hoping we will get good coverage, while the ins. Cleo's are drinking champagne and eating lobster.......
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