" I get all these seniors writing letters: "Why are you trying to cut my Medicare benefits?
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My most recent stint in the hospital, an unplanned and unexpected illness which resulted in temporary kidney damage, could have resulted in death if not for my Medicare and Medicare Advantage Plan.
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And when they sit down and think about, well, would I rather have my Medicare voucherized, or would I rather have the plan the President is talking about, that if he has the opportunity to explain that, that's a plus for us.
After all, most of my employees are on Medicare and will likely not take me up on the offer of health insurance, so maybe it would not be too costly.
"You couldn't move my own mother out of Medicare with a bulldozer, " he said.
Only it is beyond my reach because coverage from insurance or medicare remain misguided and misaligned.
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From my perspective, the biggest issue with Medicare and Medicaid is the funding issue--if you look at what we spent in the fiscal year 2001, we have basically doubled what the government has spent on health care since then.
"I would never support any changes to Medicare that would hurt seniors like my mother, " he said.
On another visit I logged in as a Senior, seeking Medicare coverage but unable to afford my out-of-pocket costs.
My proposal eliminates those payments, gradually reducing Medicare Advantage payments across the country relative to fee-for service Medicare in an equitable fashion (page 8).
My clients decided to continue with their current Medicare supplement.
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As I tried to make clear, my numbers focus exclusively on what shows up as Medicare spending in the Medicare Trustee reports.
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My question is, will the reduction and subsidies to Medicare Advantage plans cause these companies to reduce coverage to senior plans?
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My plan combines employers and individual responsibility, while maintaining Medicare and Medicaid.
But my preferred approach would be that all the payers - Medicare, Medicaid, private insurers - would jointly negotiate with all the hospitals in the region a common fee schedule and then everyone would pay that.
My COBRA benefits are ending and I am being forced on to Medicare or be subjegated to penaties wich are rediculous.
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There are members of my party who violently disagree with the notion that we should do anything on Medicare.
Almost all the growth in deficit has nothing to do with my Recovery Act, and has everything to do with the growing costs of Medicare and Medicaid.
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Unlike many of my peers who not only cannot afford one, but also cannot even get Medicare due to stringent rules and a long waiting line for court dates.
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The ObamaCare 3.8% Medicare tax on unearned income starts January 1, 2013, too (read my blog).
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Example: Medicare premiums are the same for me as for someone with a fraction of my income.
So, Congressman Ryan, my question is what free market are you thinking is going to take the place of Medicare?
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My plan also has a prevention initiative, requiring the insurance industry and public programs like Medicare and Medicaid to promote wellness as well as treat illness and provide every American with comprehensive preventive care.
As of today, Blue Button will be accessible to all My HealtheVet accounts about one million Veterans in all as well as 47 million Medicare enrollees.
Tim Ferris has obtained federal approval to spread his program for Medicare patients to two other hospitals in the Partners Healthcare System, in Boston (including my own).
But if the choice is keeping my tax break, or 33 seniors having to pay an extra 6, 000 bucks for their Medicare, why would I want that -- why would I wish that on those 33 seniors?
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My Purple Health Plan, which I discussed with Paul about a year before he came forth with his Medicare reform plan, is similar in many respects to what he proposed.
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As for my conscience, I can take a lesson from my dear old dad, who retreats to the same sound bite every time we argue about Social Security and Medicare.
And I have used my authority as president, as you said, not only to cover by executive order, those people on Medicare with the protections of the Patients' Bill of Rights, but also there's people on Medicaid, those people served by the Veterans Administration, and the people in the federal health insurance plan, the federal employees and their families.
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