If Medicare is the be-all-end-all, why do people need Supplement Plans? That seem to be multiplying as less and less gets covered by the government? It’s like double taxation, IMO.
Why does Medicare coverage, overall, kind of suck? Just like Medicaid?
Why should you be forced to pay into a system when you could make a better financial return on your investment in the free market?
I know more and more people who are continuing to work past 65 because they need private insurance as their secondary. Even Congress gets better insurance coverage throughout their miserable lives after retirement.
Furthermore, it seems there’s more and more press releases coming from the Justice Department about providers committing millions of dollars worth of Medicare fraud. We wind up funding those court cases with our taxes, too.
To me, Medicare is just another way to steal money from hard working Americans and giving them a sack of 💩 in return instead of good coverage as promised when Medicare first started. (I am beginning to think it was a scam when initially implemented, but I know it’s operating as a damn scam now.)
Why not let people get their SS payments back so tax payers can use that money on actually beneficial services instead of lining the federal coffers with even more of our hard earned funds? Or working on a different, less bloated system?
I agree with his point about bailing out corrupt global insurance companies, but I disagree on Medicare.
Don’t get me started on Medicare. As a retired soldier, who was promised medical care for life, I am now forced to pay for Medicare out of SSA and only use Tricare as my supplement (which I also have to pay for now). All retirees must PAY for Medicare out their SSA monthly, some who make barely $800. and the care we get from Medicare is substandard. If I have to pay for something I already earned it better be exceptional. And on that note, did anyone notice that Tricare use off base got you crappy medical care after Obamacare was implemented? And weren’t we already taxed on this medical care?
My husband has VA but not Tricare. He spent nine years in the Navy but isn't combat connected He developed cancer within two months of having COVID and the VA here challenges every thing. It's been so bad we had to have a congressional inquiry into his care. Needless to say we were estatic when he was finally approved for SSDI. He still has to wait a few months before his Medicare goes into effect so they put him on Medicaid. We have been told that the VA will be primary but that anything they deny Medicaid will too. Then we were told that Medicaid will cover every thing but when he goes on Medicare his coverage will be 80/20. Seems a bit unfair considering the population of who is being covered. And very scary realizing the VA can deny payment for anything they want and we have not choice as the what treatment and where he receives it.
One of the reason I don’t go to VA although I have serviced connected disabilities.
That's actually the problem. They don't want to pay for him to go anywhere else.
My sister and brother in law have Tricare and have excellent care and doctors. Maybe it depends on where people live. I do agree that It is a bummer we have to pay for medicare still from our SS and we are still taxed with medicare and SS while using it but it is still cheaper than other insurance policies monthly.
I think it may depend on where you live. I live in the DC area. I always preferred going on Base but now where I live I can’t, and I think the base prioritizes service members, as it should.