Where were you when George Bush single-handedly undertook the greatest expansion of Medicare in the program's history? Why is it that you don't know the cost of Medicare part D?
Your news sources don't even inform you about what your party is spending. You are now merely an attack dog for the Republican Party, which is purely a creature of Washington in all its centralized power. I think you can do better. We need you to do better. We need you to break free of your current information sources so that you become a better critic of both parties. Reagan spent three times what Carter spent. He left the nation terribly in debt. We didn't here a ******* peep from your side. Then Bush spent twice as much is Clinton. Again we heard nothing. We need you to be better informed.
YOU are so dumb about Medicare!
I am on Medicare and THANKS to Bush less is deducted from my Social Security THANKS to Part C which was set up under Bush's Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 which ignorantly people like you also REDUCED from nearly 400 different contractors that handle Medicare to less then 20 now!
Prior to MMA Medicare which DOES NOT process one single Claim had contracts with nearly 400 different claim processing organizations!
With Bush's MMA that has been reduced to 20 that pay every single claim again with out Medicare involved.
And in MY Case I have Medicare Advantage. A for profit company manages my Medicare based on Medicare paying
my Advantage plan $800/month. Out of which Medicare doesn't take from my SS $96.40/month because that's what my Advantage plan negotiated! In addition I have NO Co-pays when I see my doctor. Plus every month I get up
to $50 in OTC supplies.
NONE of that is offered by Medicare fee for services and NONE of which would have been possible before Bush's MMA of 2003!
Oh and by the way MY Advantage plan pays FEDERAL InCOME TAXES!!!
How many non-profits pay taxes?
All of this under Bush's MMA plan.
Thanks to that plan you ignorant people have NO idea what Medicare costs would have been!
For example... Medicare writes ONE check to my advantage plan!
NO FRAUD found by Medicare in these Advantage plans cause they don't care! Medicare KNOWS the ONLY cost
is the $800 per month for me! Up to the Advantage plan to pay all the bills and make a profit which they DO!
But you totally ignorant have NO idea how Part C which was part of MMA as was Part D cut Medicare costs!!!
The competitive forces built into Part D have kept costs down.
At an average of just $38 a month, premiums are 27 percent below where the government expected them to be. TheyÂ’ve been essentially flat since 2009, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Low premium costs, in turn, mean less taxpayer money for subsidies.
In fact, Part D costs are 40 percent below where the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) initially predicted.
Over the past six years, the CBO has lowered its long-term cost projections for Part D by hundreds of billions of dollars.
Why Are The Democrats Attacking The Only Successful Part Of Medicare - Forbes
SO again dumb f...k the costs have gone DOWN from what originally were projected!
Where then did you get your dumb f...king stupid statement about "Bush single-handedly undertook the greatest expansion of Medicare in the program's history? Why is it that you don't know the cost of Medicare part D? "
WHAT obviously do you NOT know about the Cost of Part D???
Geez... you dummies are simple refute simply because YOU never substantiate your wild hysterical hyperbolic comments!!!