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The controversy over Medicare Reform
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The controversy over Medicare Reform
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Maybe those of us who have planned for our retirement future should have taken the voucher system. It sure seems that it is NOT gonna be a Medicare as we have known it and please note this is not comi
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The controversy over Medicare Reform
posted at December 4, 2012 1:23 PM EST
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Maybe those of us who have planned for our retirement future should have taken the voucher system. It sure seems that it is NOT gonna be a Medicare as we have known it and please note this is not coming from one party or the other. CNN Money 12/04/2012: The controversy over Medicare Reform |
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Re: The controversy over Medicare Reform
posted at December 15, 2012 2:03 PM EST
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This may be a little dated now, but may be worth reading to get a better idea on how the voucher system would work. I think at the time when Romney/Ryan were pushing this, it came with a $6,000.00 deductable that was supposed to double to $12,000.00 over a 10 year period. http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2012/09/25/what-the-heck-are-medicare-vouchers/ideas/nexus/ |
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Re: The controversy over Medicare Reform
posted at December 15, 2012 4:39 PM EST
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In Response to Re: The controversy over Medicare Reform: This may be a little dated now, but may be worth reading to get a better idea on how the voucher system would work. I think at the time when Romney/Ryan were pushing this, it came with a $6,000.00 deductable that was supposed to double to $12,000.00 over a 10 year period. http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2012/09/25/what-the-heck-are-medicare-vouchers/ideas/nexus/ Posted by wisemagic Based on income and ability to pay - in other words, the less you have, the more the subsidy. There were and are still many variations of the voucher plan out there. Some of the concepts under the ACA should give us some incite into how effective subsidies might be in controlling health care cost with the general public - |
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Re: The controversy over Medicare Reform
posted at December 15, 2012 6:17 PM EST
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In Response to Re: The controversy over Medicare Reform: In Response to Re: The controversy over Medicare Reform : Based on income and ability to pay - in other words, the less you have, the more the subsidy. There were and are still many variations of the voucher plan out there. Some of the concepts under the ACA should give us some incite into how effective subsidies might be in controlling health care cost with the general public - Posted by GailL1 I think there were some articles here on the AARP site that tried to explain the Voucher Plan, and some pros and cons to. |
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Re: The controversy over Medicare Reform
posted at December 17, 2012 2:24 PM EST
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To be real in this discussion.....Its not as though population growth every decade did not tell us that we would have more and more retirees. DId anyone ever believe expenses would go down and not up anyway ? 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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