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Then why is an advantage plan $200 cheaper a month than a comparable (N) gap policy plus the Part D? The private sector takes what Medicare allocates plus the Part B premium and give me a better plan with no additional contribution. My provider list is the same as my wife on Plan G. My drugs are cheaper than her mid tier Plan D.

ACA is great as long as the taxpayer is picking up the bills but when you fall off the cliff of making too much for the subsidy your insurance got more expensive. I am not talking about some article I read on the daily Kos or some rosy smoke the government blew up my ass. I am talking about my wife's actual bills. We lived in "the market place" for 2 years and we had a $12,000 a year "bronze" policy that didn't pay for anything. We were out of pocket far more than the supposed $6500 max. (one 63-64 year old woman in Florida). Her COBRA was a little more than half that a year and it was actual insurance.

Single payer in the European style is a non starter here as long as the insurance companies, lawyers and doctors give a couple hundred million each cycle to politicians. What happened to single payer when Obama didn't even need any Republicans? ACA was a big wet kiss to the insurance companies. You can't even call Medicare single payer. People still need a "letter plan" from private companies if they want much more than catastrophic care insurance. Medicare has been upside down for a decade or more, using money from the general fund to cover the FICA shortfall. Don't even bother to spout the trust fund BS. That money was spent as soon as it came in and current tax payers are paying what we don't borrow.

Because the republicans have been trying to kill medicare for seventy years and keep adding ridculous nonsense to medicare to attempt to steer money towards their defense contractors and reduce taxes on the obscenely wealthy.

Do you remember when the part X nonsense was introduced?

Never mind. It popped up to $3.49 a couple days laater.

Cindy Hamilton

Not much substance in that reply to refute what I said, just your regular DNC bumper sticker lines.

Part X?

Go tap your gas buddy on the shoulder and tell him to open up ANWR and the pipeline. Tell him how dumb it is to ask OPEC for help.

We have been pretty stable at 3.299 here for a couple weeks after the last round of calamities. Before that it was 2.999

Do you have facts to back that up or is it just another DNC legend?

See "Medicare Modernization Act of 2003".

What's your point? Are you against drug coverage in Medicare? Advantage plans passed in the Clinton administration.

Sorry, I don't know what any of that means.

Of course you do.

You're probably confusing me with someone else. You have to pay closer attention to who says what.

Perhaps you might read the bill instead of just its title.

I look at gas prices signs and smile! I drive a 100% electric Nissan Leaf! :-)

John Kuthe, RN, BSN...

Do you know your energy cost per mile? I get at least 20 miles/gallon with my Toyota Tacoma. That's 15.9¢ per mile.,

They tweaked the Advantage numbers, so what?

Just a little gee whiz info for you from the Kaiser Foundation

Total Medicare recipients 61,212,247 Total spending $731 Billion

Original Medicare recipients 37,745,095 Expenditures $499 Billion $13,220 per recipient.

Advantage recipients 23,467,152 Expenditures $232 Billion $9,886 per recipient.

Tell me again how Advantage plans are screwing Medicare.

Links to Kaiser

Did you see that Biden is in the process of deciding whether to shut down another oil pipeline from Canada? It's absolutely stunning that this bunch are that stupid and uncaring. It's like they want to lose it all a year from now.

Separately, sleepy Joe did a total 180 on the $450K per person payments to illegal aliens that got separated. Asked last week by Doocy from Fox, whether it was true that the administration was considering those payments, Biden retorted that it was "garbage that you heard". Just a couple days later, Biden asked again by Doocy, now admits it's true, says, what do you expect? Trump created this problem, not me. It's all Trump's fault that I'm going to give $450K to illegal aliens, up to $1 mil per family. Yet another welcome mat, come on over, you can strike it rich here in the new America.