Obama May Drop Public Option From His Health Care Plans

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Pretty big headline eh? And it’s a testament to all those who would not be silenced. Those who were told to sit down and shut up but didn’t.

Bowing to Republican pressure, President Barack Obama’s administration signaled on Sunday it is ready to abandon the idea of giving Americans the option of government-run insurance as part of a new health care system.

Facing mounting opposition to the overhaul, administration officials left open the chance for a compromise with Republicans that would include health insurance cooperatives instead of a government-run plan. Such a concession probably would enrage Obama’s liberal supporters but could deliver a much-needed victory on a top domestic priority opposed by GOP lawmakers.

Or could it because his numbers continue to drop:

Or is he just wanting something to point at and say “I overhauled health care.” It’s probably a combination of factors but I doubt they will toss the whole thing out with the wash. Instead, expect some kind of Socialism Lite kind of deal. They have to have something to spend those 150 million bucks on right?

Victor Davis Hanson has a great article up on the hypocrisy of this whole deal:

Ironies abound in the health-care debate. Bush was pilloried by the Obamanians for (1) not planning for the postwar occupation of Iraq; and (2) not being able to articulate the ends and means of the administration’s war. Yet in the hubris of high ratings, Obama apparently felt that he neither had to present a comprehensive finished blueprint of health-care reform, nor that he or his associates should have to sum it up succinctly and clearly. The result is that most Americans not only do not know what the administration plan is, but sense that their president does not either.

Health care is stalled and insidiously undermining the presidency of Obama precisely because the public senses he has not leveled with the American people.

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Bottom line: too many Americans, whether rightly or wrongly, believe that Obama has other agendas that transcend simply ensuring American live longer, healthier, and better — such as growing government, enforcing an equality of result, and creating permanent constituencies that administer and receive expanding federal entitlements.

Oh, its rightly….we absolutely know that Obama has other agendas while he continues to be the campaigning President.

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I’m not going to relax… these scumbags will try and do an end run around us.

Don’t believe this for one half of a millisecond – that “public option” can go right straight back into the final version of any health care bill during the reconciliation of the House and Senate versions.

Again this is something out of the Chicago playbook, say you are going to do nothing and then in the cover of darkness whoosh – there it is and this time it is in motion.

What a joke, between the insurance companies and politicians getting money from the insurance companies, these poor people out there that have no insurance and the ones that have lost jobs and will shortly be without insurance, will be up a creek, we have to have a reform on insurance now not later. This isn’t rocket science people, all these people will be on public aid everytime they need health care and you and I will be paying for it, so whats the difference, we need to get these insurance co to lower there prices so they are affordable for everyone, not just some. Were being lied to and not by our president, wake up out there, scare tactics, have you ever heard of that.

The difference “hospital worker” is that you can get off public aid, get a job and have real insurance. Or pay cash.

If you are really a “hospital worker” who does anything other than change the garbage out or do laundry, then you know as well as I do that no change at all is better than the WRONG change.

@hospital worker: You smell like another of those phony “doctors” that appear at Dem Town Hall meetings.

How much is ACORN paying you?

@Evil Otto: I think you are right. This is just a tactical shift by the Dems. Watch for them to demand we compromise and let them keep most of this abominal bill intact.

“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”
Thomas Jefferson

Keep the pressure on.

I’ll wait to party when this Obama Hellcare “reform” is dead; a quick death. But watch out, like a zombie it may arise again as a “coooperative” idea. Kill it. Obama has been so seriously injured by his losing position that he does not have any political clout left. Obama has in the process exposed himself as what he really is: a socialist, radical, having very little regard for our constitutional rights; and a liar, a damn liar, an incessant liar. Ask AARP.

With a vast majority of Americans saying that they are quite satisfied with their health plans as is, there really is no reason to trash the greatest medical system in the world — or trade it for a second rate socialist scam. Currently the continuing protests against Obama Hellcare are hot, furious, and demanding; so much so that at first the Demorats said there was no “end-of-life” (or death panels) provision in the Demorat proposed health bill, then the same Democraps proceeded to drop the provision.

Now they are dropping the single-payer option, which means the government will not be going into the health care business as the U.S. Post Office or Amtrack. Obama keeps saying that leaving the system unreformed will be costly; but the question is, what would Obamacare have cost? Obama doesn’t know or won’t say. It probably would have cost America anywhere from 3 trillion dollars or much, much more. Taxation for socialist health care would have been overwhelming.

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“The problem with socialism,” Margaret Thatcher once said, “is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”

http://prairiepundit.blogspot.com/2009/03/running-out-of-other-peoples-money.html

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Why is Obama “hiding” ALL of his records?

Original, vault copy birth certificate — Not released
Certificate of Live Birth — Released — Counterfeit
Obama/Dunham marriage license — Not released

Obama/Dunham divorce — Released (by independent investigators)
Soetoro/Dunham marriage license — Not released
Soetoro adoption records — Not released

Soetoro/Dunham divorce — Released (by independent investigators)
Fransiskus Assisi School School application — Released (by independent investigators)
Punahou School records — Not released
Selective Service Registration — Released — Counterfeit
Occidental College records — Not released
Passport — Not released and records scrubbed clean by Obama’s terrorism and intelligence adviser.
Columbia College records — Not released
Columbia thesis — Not released
Harvard College records — Not released
Harvard Law Review articles — None
Baptism certificate — None
Medical records — Not released
Illinois State Senate records — None
Illinois State Senate schedule — Lost
Law practice client list — Not released
University of Chicago scholarly articles — None
Source: Morning Security News Brief via Internal Company News Wire-Washington

Article: http://www.antijihadresistance.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=21110

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Brith or Kenyan birth?

http://patriotupdate.com/stories/read/608/Is_This_Really_Smoking_Gun_Of_Obamas_Kenyan_Birth_Attorney_Files_Motion_For_Authentication_Of_Alleged_1960s_Certificate_From_Africa.

GOP plan is simple, junk lawsuit reform, and allow competition of insurance companies, letting us buy insurance across state lines. Allow small business, and individuals to pool together in buying policy. Put some good watch dogs on the fraudulent claims . Cover every one for catastrophic medical insurance. That would cover most expense of cancers and accidents. High deductible but my mothers cancer cost 400 ,000 25 years ago. All covered by blue cross.

one other problem i see, some people, i have one in my family, run to the doctor for the least little thing. She has 2 doc appts. a week. If the waste can be cut with maybe a copay for these types of people that would help. Maybe they would think twice before making appts. for every little ailment.
Very old, disabled people i have no problem helping them.

Last thing everybody needs, catastrophic medical insurance- Blue CRoss, Blue Shield has these type of policies for 83 a month. My son, 25, has this policy and it costs him 50 per month. the deductible is high, 2,500, but anyone can borrow that or set up payments after the fact. THis policy would take care of cancer, car accidents, that usually cause bankruptcy. When i first got this policy 9 years ago i think it was 2 mil lifetime. New policy is a 5 mil per lifetime, i haven checked the deductible yet.

AdrianS, Who knows at this point but Obama is a fraud and NOT qualified for any Office.

He is winging it and funded by Soros and others that want America Destroyed and subordinate to their agenda.

there is no death panel, everytime a patient is admitted to our hospital we ask do you have a living will and if not would you like us to have someone talk to you about it. Wow wouldn’t it be nice if your insurance company would pay for a visit to your personal doctor to discuss your options if this would ever come into play, and not when your laying there on your deathbed, make these important decisions when your capable. That is what this is about, making a personal decision. But, someone who decided to change everything to make this sound like this policy is going to put you to death when they want to, give me a break. Who made this crap up, an insurance company?

And yes public aid is temporary, find a job, somewhere, gee what can you buy when you make 8 bucks an hour, and have a family, and need food and pay to live. What choices are there.

Every doctor I know discusses living wills and care orders with his older patients – and I know hundreds of doctors. They don’t need some mandate.

That $8 an hour job at WalMart carries health insurance as good or better than what you can get through many other private companies – and a whole lot of the plans offered by the federal government.

There are ALWAYS chocies – unless the government is allowed to take over the medical system in this country, in which case we will all get hurry up and wait, one size fits all “medicine.”

AdrianS…You got it nailed. Can I put some music to that?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpy_pYXSpPA

Granny…We have choices. One size does not fit all. Never did. Obama is talking out of his back side now and We know it. Hold on. My Senator Max Baucus got my message and a letter signed by about 1,342 Montana residents spread over miles and miles and he will not admit it but we got him by the place that will have him looking for work in California, New York or New Jersey selling used cars or shining shoes. Ranchers, business Owners and Miners.

When We get the short end of the stick, we return the Favor in spades. Not to worry…

Max needs to worry now…

Kim Galloway: “Very old, disabled people i have no problem helping them.”

Realize that older citizens, many of who have been paying medicare and medical “premiums” for 30, 40 or 50 years are getting no free-bee. They paid, though their hard work, every payday of their lives while they worked, money into a system that, through nothing they have done, is dysfunctional. They paid week after week, month after month, year after year, for their “policy”. The greed in this country, or mismanagement at best, has made government-run systems nothing more than high-class ponzi schemes.

We are not, NOT, “helping” the elderly, disabled or handicapped. They are ENTITLED to what they paid for; good quality medial care and sustenance at retirement. Define it any other way and Social Security and Medicare both become a frauds.

We have the greatest medical care system (quality of care and medical technology – no emergency is turned down) that is far superior than in any other country in the world. What we need is competition. Not the kind that Obama and Democraps want. They are in bed with the DRUG companies and have sold out the American people for a “profit”. Drug companies were poised to earn billions under the now dropped government (socialist-Obama) health care plan. Under the plan, there would not have been any competition.

A government-run health care system would NOT get lower prices. And, the DRUG companies were willing to bet on that — to the tune of at least 500 million dollars.

Real competition can only be achieved by allowing for more medical professionals, both doctors and PA (Physician assistants) and nurses, more (smaller if necessary) clinics and hospitals, and the engendering of more competition among drug companies — encourage the establishment, though tax incentives, of more, many more, drug companies. That is the only way to really lower prices though competition (sounds Capitalistic … great).

I supported the proposed health care plan UNTIL I learned that there would be no extra hospitals or clinics — a “prescription” for lowered quality care, longer waits, and bureaucratic control; which would have necessitated end-of-life counseling to reduce the number of patients.

When I realized that the government would control the quality and distribution of health care at its option, I immediately dropped my support for any “reform” to our health care.

Obama said that it would have been scary if health care in American were not “reformed”. I say Obama is scary and health care in American is just fine the way it is, thank you.

this must be a panel of rich republicans, with eyes closed shut, yes I work at a hospital but I don’t take out trash or do laundry, I’m the one that says this procedure will be done if you can pay half now and half later, I can stop any type of elective surgery if you don’t have insurance or the cash to pay for it, that also means test your doctor wants you to have, I don’t care if your dying or what, money first or go somewhere else. And your telling me this is right. I hope you all never have to suffer like a lot of patients I see, Good Luck

Its not about govt taking over our medical system, its about insurance companies screwing people when they need them.

Obama qualifications to reform health care:

No birth certificate

Cannot stop smoking

Difficulty telling the truth.

Narcissistic personality disorder

Therefore, I Igor produce Obama Birth Certificate at http://www.igormaro.org

Compare Obama Care vs Igor Care at Obama vs Igor Care

Hospital Worker

Why do you folks why a boogie man under every rock? Have you ever thought maybe it’s the government screwing us? Go away creep.

You must work at a private facility hospital worker – and by your own description you are nothing but a paper shuffler that knows virtually nothing whatever about medicine. What you describe would be illegal in a public hospital for anything other than elective surgery. Elective means it does not have to be done. Under Obamacare there will be NO elective surgery and severely curtailed necessary surgery.

Hospital worker, please put the kool aid down & take a deep breath. what i & the many thousands of people want to keep is our freedom. NO government mandates period! i choose my own insurance or not. fix the problems yes.help the poor yes. but that’s it. understand? you could read the bill, then maybe you will understand. of course if you want a controlling government & little to no freedom, planes fly overseas hourly. Me, i was born free & intend to die that way. btw, I was a registered serious leftie for over 35 yrs of my life.

just remember when you get 65 yrs old, don’t sign up for medicare, its govt run. DUH!!! You people can afford insurance all your life, I HOPE

@hospital worker:

I can stop any type of elective surgery if you don’t have insurance or the cash to pay for it, that also means test your doctor wants you to have, I don’t care if your dying or what, money first or go somewhere else.

So many chocolaty rich nuggets in your posts it’s hard to decide where to begin.

The one above, however, is where I will start.

Let me be the first to call BULLSH*T on that claim.

You’re supposedly a hospital employee albeit, by your own admission, a mere paper pusher.

You, as a hospital employee, don’t have the power, or authority, to stop any test that a doctor orders especially if the patient in question is dying.

You’re required BY LAW to provide life saving treatment to everyone who presents at your facility whether they are insured or not insured.

You’re full of crap.

Wow wouldn’t it be nice if your insurance company would pay for a visit to your personal doctor to discuss your options if this would ever come into play

Yes, I always go to my doctor for assistance in making legal decisions….and my attorney took my appendix out a month ago.

Doctors are for medical stuff. Lawyers are for legal stuff. Living wills are legal stuff.

Idiot.

But, someone who decided to change everything to make this sound like this policy is going to put you to death when they want to, give me a break.

Have you read HR3200?

Do you know who Ezekiel Emanuel is? How about John Holdren?

Have you read what they have written about health care rationing and comparative benefits?

Sorry, you’re debating from a position of ignorance here.

Come back when you’re better prepared.

@hospital worker:

just remember when you get 65 yrs old, don’t sign up for medicare, its govt run. DUH!!! You people can afford insurance all your life, I HOPE

Thanks to government regulations and requirements, seniors HAVE NO CHOICE about enrolling in Medicare if they wish to collect their Social Security.

What was your point again?

The Special Interest lobbyists are spending $millions, spilling their lies to the American people. So many lies that they have likely disrupted any chance of Universal health care. They have lied so much about the Canada system, and paid off so many people to give birth to their lies, that the gullible population believes them. The wealthy insurers want no change, so they can ring every dollar out of a system.wrought with fraud and corruption In the long run cost will explode and only the upper class will have the money to buy care. Lose your job and even those people will join the millions out of work unble to pay for medical care for their family.
The Status Quo are selling propaganda and downright lies, across the TV, radio bandwidths. LIES! Lies and more lies about both Health care and illegal immigration. The facts are that President Obama has an objective of introducing a Canadian and European type single payer system.

In truth it’s like a nationwide–MEDICARE–like all senior citizens receive now. It’s only difference their will be–NO CO-PAYS, DEDUCTIONS, NO PREMIUMS AND NO PRE -EXISTING CONDITIONS. The Special interest lobbyists, who work for the wealthy health care industry, are using every means possible to derail any kind of Universal health care. We must remember the British/English, French, German, Danish and other have been well accepted by their population for decades, with no worries about bankruptcy or Debt collectors calling. My health care in England, was first class when I lived in there, without financial worries and no distractions from profiteering insurance companies.As a child and a young man I choose my doctor and received eye and dentistry visits free of charges.

I NEVER HAD TO WAIT FOR A SURGERY FOR MONTHS, AS THE SPECIAL INTEREST LOBBY TRIES TO IMPLY? EMERGENCY PROCEDURES WERE DEALT WITH IMMEDIATELY. One should remember that there a large majority of nefarious special interest groups, who enjoy the status quo and will fight with propaganda and lies against their profiteering. Another place where I lived was Australia, where the health care system is equally as great as England. One year I was employed by Australian Main Roads as a junior surveyor and stepped into a fire ants nest, ending up in hospital. Once again my cost was–ZERO–because I paid into the system. There is something very calming, without the worry of billing statements pouring through the mailbox demanding money and threatening you with an attorney.

Since the inception of the European common market and the directive of open borders for cheap labor pouring into the industrialized nations, they have been overwhelmed by the impoverished needing health care. Such conditions didn’t exist before the 1960’s, as the their was no mass immigration and waiting periods. In America today and since the newest waves of legal and illegal immigration, costs to medicate these people have sky rocketed who have never paid one penny into the system. Each previous government never have restricted immigration, but allowed taxpayers to pay for their health care and welfare benefits. Each year approximately 1.5 million new immigrants are granted work visas and many become public charges.

Now Obama is insisting on yet another AMNESTY, which will be even costlier to the American taxpayers, so says the Heritage foundation. American taxpayers should not have to subsidize US businesses, which has been happening for years? A large majority of pariah corporate executives, do not want any restrictions on foreign national workers, that is why they have tried to kill a mandated E-Verify identity data base, to extract all illegal immigrants from the working environment.

That SANCTUARY STATES like California must rescind illegal immigrant refuge policies. That President Obama’s health care renewal plan—WILL–attract millions more impoverished people from around the world. That they can join with the 20 plus million already here, to get free medical care under the Democrats law now passing through Congress.

Observe this PETITION to STOP any health care to illegal immigrants at: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/nohealthcareforillegals

social security and medicare are two differnet things, if our employers could afford to keep us in insurance we wouldn’t need medicare when we retire, hopefully your employer will keep you safe.

and just to let you know, come to my hospital for outpatient test, no insurance, no money, no service, got that, inpatient and er differnet laws. Were do you live virgin island where the rich hide there money.

So an elected member of our government, whose duty it is to speak for and represent the American people, has decided that what we want, our opinions are no longer important? The word dictator comes to mind… along with Marxist overtones….. are we really no better than North Korea or Iran?

Hospital “worker”, you had better learn to read a little law and brush up on Social Security regulations before your time comes to “collect.” Thanks to the DEMOCRATS under Clinton, you can no longer collect the Social Security you’ve paid for over 50 years unless you ALSO take Medicare – even if that Medicare costs half of your Social Security allotment.

What hospital do you work at? Inquiring minds want to know. It wouldn’t be the University of Chicago where Michelle Obama instituted her patient dumping program would it?

Let me give you a clue bat: Every single hospital in the United States of America, large or small, that has taken a dime in federal money has to provide FREE care equal to a certain percentage of the money they have received for a period of 20 years. There isn’t a hospital in America that hasn’t had a Federal building loan. The FREE care is in lieu of interest.

So, tell me – what hospital do you work at? What state? What city? Because I would be happy to report your facility to both state and federal authorities.

@hospital worker:

social security and medicare are two differnet things

You really need to go and read the information that I linked.

That would save you from looking like a complete idiot.

Seniors are REQUIRED to sign up for Medicare if they wish to collect their Social Security checks.

and just to let you know, come to my hospital for outpatient test, no insurance, no money, no service, got that, inpatient and er differnet laws.

Ohhh…now I understand.

You’re a paper pusher in an outpatient clinic so your “I don’t care if your dying or what” claim is nothing more than a delusion of grandeur.

No one is guaranteed the right to go to your outpatient facility for any sort of treatment.

If you want treatment, then it has to be paid for either out of the pocket of the patient or out of the pocket of that person’s insurer.

It’s not the job of the gov’t to provide anyone with money for health care. In fact, the whole idea is unconstitutional.

An administration official said tonight that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius “misspoke” when she told CNN this morning that a government run health insurance option “is not an essential part” of reform.

Now exactly how do you have a debate when the “authors” of the bill can’t even get the program straight among themselves ?

american people, don’t let this MSM fool you. These folks don’t care about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for america.

Continue to EXPOSE the truth. watch Obama’s supporters will turn on him when they eventually will get exposed.

Aye is right. But over and above all that is the fact that government regulations rule that insurance companies cannot offer insurance to those over 65 unless they continue working. I retired at 68 and kept my BCBS insurance until that time. I stilll had to sign up for medicare parts A & B at age 65.

On another note, back in the 60s my grandfather and his brother did not want to lose their BC policies and did not want to go on medicare but they was told that BC could not insure anyone over 65 and that he had no choice if he wanted insurance but to go on medicare.

We need better trolls. The ones here now are substandard.

@ Brittancus
Are you bi-polar Dave Francis? Or is it Daves1221? Or is it Brittanicus of IN? How does ACORN pay you? By the post? If I were them, I’d demand a little originality. You must have hit every blog out there.

BarbaraS is right, we need better trolls. These are substandard.

aye maybe you should read up, medicare part a is free to all seniors, which takes all hospitals stays, part b is for outpatient and drs. why are you making up such bs.

hospital worker
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aye maybe you should read up, medicare part a is free to all seniors, which takes all hospitals stays, part b is for outpatient and drs. why are you making up such bs.

Hospital Worker, Medicare is absolutely NOT free to any senior at all. They pay a base amount per month, taken out of their social security checks, for Part A (which covers only hospital admissions and has an $800 out of pocket deductible) and then further amounts (some of which can vary) for the other Medicare B, D, etc.

@hospital worker:

aye maybe you should read up, medicare part a is free to all seniors, which takes all hospitals stays, part b is for outpatient and drs. why are you making up such bs.

You’re continuing to prove yourself to be a complete dumb ass.

The sad part is, you aren’t even smart enough to realize it, even when it is pointed out to you.

“Medicare is free” hospital worker says….without going on to address the premiums charged to seniors for the coverage as noted by Granny.

Nor does hospital worker note that every dollar paid out by Medicare is then collected from the estate of the patient once deceased.

Nothing is FREE.

It’s called delayed reimbursement via estate recovery.

Look it up.

You still haven’t addressed the fact that seniors are REQUIRED by law to sign up for Medicare in order to collect their Social Security benefits.

They don’t have the option of opting out unless they give up the Social Security that they have been required to pay into.

As I said earlier, you are debating from a position of ignorance and doing a very poor job of it.

aye you really are a fu king idiot, medicare a is free, and what plant are you from that if medicare pays and you die, they take it back from your estate, i think your confused with medicaid, or public aid, which you must be. Go talk to GW Bush, maybe he will give you some insurance when your old

@hospital worker:

I was really hoping that you would stop back by to drop some more of your spatter on the floor.

Thank you for not disappointing me.

Now, let’s move on to your latest bescumberance:

aye you really are a fu king idiot

Actually, no, that would be you. You continue to insist on arguing from a position of ignorance and you are making a complete and utter fool of yourself in the process.

medicare a is free

That’s priceless. Another Stunning Example of Concentrated Stupid from the hospital paper pusher. You’ve had several people tell you that you’re wrong, yet you persist.

If Medicare A is “Free” as you contend then where do the deductions from our paychecks go? Plus, there’s this little tidbit. If you don’t pay in enough over the course of the time you are working, you have to pay in monthly once you are on Medicare so obviously, it’s not FREE.

It’s just a matter of when you pay for it:

Part A: (Hospital Insurance) Premium

Damn! A quick Google and two clicks later everyone can see that you’re an idiot. Again.

As I said to you earlier, nothing is FREE.

what plant are you from that if medicare pays and you die, they take it back from your estate
i think your confused with medicaid, or public aid, which you must be

Nope, not confused here. It’s called estate recovery. Again, go look it up. Yes, Medicaid does the same, but even more aggressively.

Lack of knowledge on your part does not constitute a need for research on my part.

Go talk to GW Bush, maybe he will give you some insurance when your old

No, I don’t need GW Bush, any other politician, or anyone else to give me insurance. That is my own responsibility.

Other than get out of my way, I don’t need the gov’t to do anything at all for me.

mmmm… suspect “hospital worker” is really an aide, and has emptied one too many bedpans.

Let’s see if we can go slow for her/him. Look at your every paycheck. FICA taxes? Know what they are all about? That’s SS and Medicare tax collections. Let me translate…. if you started working from 1965 and on, you have had 1.45% (as of today’s withholding rate) held back from you for Medicare tax contribution alone. Under 65? Well, you’ve been paying into Medicare to the tune of 1.45% of your gross pay since you’ve been working… yet you are paying for insurance you cannot obtain unless you are old enough, or disabled. Do you think your contribution is sitting in a lock box somewhere with your name on it, waiting for you? Of course not. In fact, even sucking money out of you today, and everyone else, they still can’t support the Medicare enrollees. What does that tell you of govt money management?

I’ve been working since it’s inception. The government has been taking cash out of me for this retirement insurance since day one. Free? Nope… I’ve already paid for it, and will continue to pay if I want Parts B and D. Or I can opt for Part C (Medicare Advantage). But despite the fact I’ve been paying all my working life, I will still continue to pay after retirement for anything but the basics.

And speaking of the basics on Medicare A, there is still a deductible (at this time $1096) for the covered period. It doesn’t cover everything, which is why there are Parts B, C and D.

Aye, on the estate recovery, I believe that is confined to Medicaid and not Medicare. Which seems oxymoronic itself as those who qualify for Medicaid have very little “estate” from which to recover costs. However, I would like to see anything that says it’s also applied to Medicare. I could be wrong on this.

I will say that if you opt out of Medicare at age 65, and therefore have to forfeit your SS, any retirement SS funds you received for prior periods MUST be paid back. The gov’t taketh away, doles back out in pittance, then taketh away again. There is no public option that is acceptable. The only reason I’d go into Medicare is because I’ve already paid for it all my life, and they won’t give me my money back.

Hospital Worker?
Administrator?
Doctor?
Nurse?
Orderly?
Candy Striper?

Most likely a Troll. I reckon I guessed it right and an SEIU Member as well.

*TRICARE for Life for me.
*Social Security? I view my SS contributions the same as ENRON Stock Shares.
*Medicare. Hmm. I paid into it but view it the same as SS but can’t write it off as charity.
*Public Option? Unfunded? I pay enough taxes now. No Thanks!
*Honesty and transparency on Obama Care? Nope. Not so thinly veiled Socialism at work.

Well FA Folks, the Parliament of Whores are catching hell on recess. Max Baucus will not be trout fishing on my property here and he knows why. He will not be quail hunting here either. He knows why. Unless he brings Rahm Emanuel, Ted Kennedy, Pelosi, Boxer, Barney Frank, Schumer and Arlen Specter. I will call Dick Cheyney because he has hunted here and By God the hunt is on!

I am not joking. I have quail, grouse and Canada Geese overfly the property here.
Hospital worker?

Stop pulling my leg.