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Re: Cutting Social Security and Medicare
posted at January 27, 2012 11:18 PM EST
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In Response to Re: Cutting Social Security and Medicare: In Response to Re: Cutting Social Security and Medicare : Could someone please tell me why we have to pay for medicare when we pay into it our whole working life.Isn't that an entitlement ? I think this another way for the goverment to double dip. Posted by bobbigirl47 By Federal law, Part B premiums are set to cover 25 percent of the cost of Medicare's outpatient care benefit. The federal law also says that -- with some exceptions -- an individual's Medicare premium cannot go up more than their Social Security COLA. |