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busterbrown

(8,515 posts)
Wed Dec 7, 2016, 11:22 PM Dec 2016

So I posted on my f/b today..

So I ask all of you over 65.. One simple question... What are you gonna do when you RUN OUT OF VOUCHERS? If you don’t know what I’m talking about..then you are... uninformed and probably voted for the guy who is coming your fucking way!

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roamer65

(36,748 posts)
1. If they repeal the pre-existing condition clause of Obamacare and nuke Medicare...
Wed Dec 7, 2016, 11:34 PM
Dec 2016

no amount of vouchers will buy anyone over 55 health insurance. The insurers simply won't offer it or it will be sky high premiums that no one can afford.

Wounded Bear

(58,774 posts)
2. Which is why Medicare exists in the first place...
Wed Dec 7, 2016, 11:38 PM
Dec 2016

Insurers simply would not insure seniors at anywhere near an affordable rate structure.

Maru Kitteh

(28,345 posts)
4. They have long felt the poor waste too much money living beyond their value to "the producers"
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 01:21 AM
Dec 2016

of society - i.e., the 1%, the truly rich fuckers who actually do no work but profit and hoard the rewards of our labor, ideas, skills, talents.


 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
3. Asked my Sister In Law this same question
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 12:34 AM
Dec 2016

and oh my goodness,first she is a full blown Diabetic and her health has been going south the last couple of years. Well my oh my,she thinks the Private Insurers will never go back to pre conditions. Well, reminded her of pre ACA and her cement was,well,I had Company Insurance back then. Wow,how soon they forget. BTW,she voted for Trump.

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