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Skink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 11:14 AM Original message |
I thought Medicare was an entitlement that was already paid for with payroll taxes? |
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Obamanaut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 11:19 AM Response to Original message |
1. I don't think it's that simple. n/t |
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dragonlady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 11:19 AM Response to Original message |
2. The payroll taxes are designed to pay for the care of those over 65 |
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Skink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 11:24 AM Response to Reply #2 |
7. So this is public option medicare. |
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Winterblues (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 11:42 AM Response to Reply #7 |
25. 80% only |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 11:27 AM Response to Reply #2 |
11. Except you do know that those 65 and over pay premiums |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 11:39 AM Response to Reply #11 |
21. More correctly, SOME of Medicare charges premiums. |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 11:45 AM Response to Reply #21 |
28. Thank you for typing all of those details! |
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Mass (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 11:19 AM Response to Original message |
3. The payroll taxes that you pay are not for you, but for seniors. |
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Vincardog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 11:20 AM Response to Original message |
4. It is our money when they are taxing it. After they get it, it is corporate money not ours any more |
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Mass (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 11:24 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Workers pay for retired people. It is how the system works. What is so hard to understand. |
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Skink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 11:27 AM Response to Reply #6 |
12. that's how I thought it worked... |
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Mass (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 11:33 AM Response to Reply #12 |
18. People between 55 and 65 are not considered retired. The money payed on payroll taxes |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 11:37 AM Response to Reply #12 |
20. Those on Medicare today do not get it for 'free'. They pay at least $96.40 a month for Part B. |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 11:31 AM Response to Reply #6 |
16. It's not "solidarity" when the people paying for the services can't utilize them. |
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Vincardog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 11:36 AM Response to Reply #6 |
19. What happend to all the SSI overpayments we have been making? They were used to "Buy" Tbills that |
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Mass (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 11:39 AM Response to Reply #19 |
22. What does SSI have to do with Medicare in the first place? |
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Vincardog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 11:43 AM Response to Reply #22 |
26. They are both examples of how the government takes our money and it becomes "Their" money. |
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Mass (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 11:44 AM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Yes, this is how most European countries work as well. So what. |
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Vincardog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 12:29 PM Response to Reply #27 |
32. Do you remember the OP? The one I was responding to? It was about the ,money paid into Medicare |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 12:00 PM Response to Reply #26 |
30. No, Social Security and Medicare are both government programs that pool taxpayer money and then |
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napi21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 11:23 AM Response to Original message |
5. There IS a % taken out of your paycheck which helps fund Medicare, |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 11:40 AM Response to Reply #5 |
23. Yep, My Medicare + Supplemental + Full Prescription Coverage comes to several hundred per month. |
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Mass (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 11:41 AM Response to Reply #23 |
24. Yes, my MIL pays about $350 a year for that. |
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kirby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 11:24 AM Response to Original message |
8. It works this way... |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 11:24 AM Response to Original message |
9. They were. The SS trust was judged "overfunded" and so on and so forth... |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 11:26 AM Response to Original message |
10. The cost of the care most people get after the age of 65 is higher than the money |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 11:28 AM Response to Original message |
13. Medicare payments are taken out of Social Security payments monthly. |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 11:29 AM Response to Original message |
14. Just Part A for hospitals and then, it's often subsidized. It's $96.40 a month for Part B. And extra |
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OHdem10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 11:31 AM Response to Original message |
15. Did you ever hear of Privatization??? |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 11:32 AM Response to Original message |
17. It's not "already paid for"--it comes out of workers' checks every week. |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 11:47 AM Response to Original message |
29. It's part of your FICA tax deduction. |
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katkat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 12:13 PM Response to Original message |
31. here's what medicare costs me |
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quiller4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 01:14 PM Response to Original message |
33. The payroll taxes don't generate enough income because medical |
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