Interesting. I wonder if he is part of a self-funded LDS insurance program?

signs up for medicare and people will complain that he's taking advantage of a program that was set up to help those who NEED help. Mitt can't really "win" either way on this one.

everybody who qualifies (age-wise) gets it and has been paying into it for their whole working lives. Romney is as entitled to it as anybody else. It would be nice for all those right-wingers and Congress-critters whom complain about Medicare and Social Security to eschew them and refuse to accept them but most don't, of course.

and whose party constantly rails against "entitlements", it's a loser for him either way.

It kills me whenever some right-winger on Medicare rails about "socialized medicine" without being smart enough to realize the irony of it.

Part A is not, but Part B and Part D are. For Romney, the Part B premium would be $2i9.80 higher and the PartD premium would be $66.40 higher than for most enrollees.
http://www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs/10536.html#a0=4

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Huh?

I don't think his campaign wants it out there he is 65 years old. Not with a younger Santorum model on the market. I believe he is worried about being older than Obama and Santorum. They still think McCain only lost because he felt old and out of touch.

that of POTUS ... and yes, it would be publicly funded. Even if it isn't now, it probably would be, under Mitt. Just not for anybody making under $100K.

when you turned 65 whether you wanted to or not. Also, what kind of a message does his action send? Is he implying that he doesn't support the program? Or that he doesn't support it for folks in certain income brackets? I assume he is not going to collect Social Security either. A very strange message to send.

and your plan does not require you to be on medicare also, you don't have to sign up. Why pay twice for coverage?

don't use anything except catastrophic care insurance policies if that..Why? Because they use non-covered medical care to insure early detection of any health problem. They have annual full body CT scans, bi-annual pet scans, go to world class physicians at the slightest symptom who order batteries of tests which would not be covered by medicare or any other insurance..Ever wondered why the wealthy tend to live to ripe older ages than the public? Ever wonder, when you hear of a 1%er who was diagnosed with this cancer or that fatal ailment, but thank goodness for early detection, they are expecting a 100% recovery, how they detected that so soon? No, medicare is for those expendable 99% who have to be completely incapacitated and wait months for the treatment/tests some desk jockey in Washington thinks they need regardless what the patient's doctor believes.

i pay around 110 a month for medicare and supplemental. so far i have no out of pocket expense

full body CT scan or PET scan...you can't unless you pay for it yourself or are already showing symptoms (too late) of a covered diagnosis code.. You can bet your ass Romney does just that.

... Or does he have a "conscience"?