[graham]

I happen to be very lucky as I live in a civilised country where I don't need health insurance.

[Lumpy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('graham', 'I') happen to be very lucky as I live in a civilised country where I don't need health insurance.

[smiley]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lumpy', 'W')onder how long you will all continue to receive health care. It will take a back seat to keeping people fed and supplied with clean water,

[Lumpy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smiley', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lumpy', 'W')onder how long you will all continue to receive health care. It will take a back seat to keeping people fed and supplied with clean water,

[quadzillajim]

If I lose my job I will lose my health coverage and my family will just have to go to county hospital when sick and the goverment will pay. When I get a new job which wouldn't be hard to find in the field that I'm in, it won't come with insurance cause they will put me on part time. They will do this so they won't have to pay benifits. I think more and more companys are implementing this kind of strategy. I say medicare for all. Cut out the insurance companies that make billions.

[Cog]

Medicare is unsustainable because it pays out more than it takes in. Raise taxes or cut benefits if you want it to continue. Time to end this ponzi scheme and let the chips fall where they may. If that means old people dying, its not like that has never happened in human history.

People have got soft and better shape up quick. The future is a hell of a lot harsher than you can imagine.

[newman1979]

Cog, a few facts for you to chew on. First Medicare is not presently in a negative hole. zFacts.com has tabulated the National debt and Medicare is presently on the plus side with over $4 trillion owed to the trust by the Federal Government. Two, if the Government paid interest rates that were normalized due to inflation Medicare would be fine for years. Also all workers pay on all their earnings for all their earning life for Medicare insurance. Even beneficiaries pay from $120 to $500 a month for Medicare and it is taken from Social Security checks as a deduction. Medicare is not an entitlement, it is a benefit that is paid for. Frankly being over 65 years old and paying for lousy health insurance for over 10 years, Medicare, even with higher premiums based on our income, saves over 50% what private health insurance costs when I was 64 and covers all costs with the supplemental. Imagine the cost of insurance as a 70-80 year old. Who wants to insure an older person when 50% of a person's medical costs occur in the last two years of life and at what price? Cog, maybe someday you will grow up to be 65 and pay the medical bills and health insurance plus all of life's other expenses and be able to afford it. Better start salting away a million or two to pay for your health insurance you will need.

[Loki]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('graham', 'I') happen to be very lucky as I live in a civilised country.

[Loki]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lumpy', '
')
Just tore the cartilage in my knee (farm accident.) Surgery required. (I have a copy of the MRI .. there's no question about it.) Glad that will be done before the insurance runs out!

[Cog]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('newman1979', 'z')Facts.com has tabulated the National debt and Medicare is presently on the plus side with over $4 trillion owed to the trust by the Federal Government.