Re: Medicare

Re >  if you don't sign up for it
> by a specific date, you get penalized.  Huh?  Same if you don't sign
> up for either SS or Medicare by a certain age.  I do NOT get the
> point here.

Could it be that they don't want to be accused of discrimination?  18 yr old
men must sign up for the draft by a certain date or be penalized.

Re>  If the surplus that used to exist had been
> invested and kept in the fund instead of spent on other stuff by
> every administration since inception, there wouldn't be a pending
> funding problem IMO.

My thoughts exactly.  I always wondered why they were allowed to plunder SS.

Kitty
neIN, Z5
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marge Talt" <mtalt@hort.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 7:02 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Medicare


> Our leader's singular grasp of our common language clarifies why the
> prescription portion of Medicare is so completely unintelligible.
>
> The part I have never understood is that if you don't sign up for it
> by a specific date, you get penalized.  Huh?  Same if you don't sign
> up for either SS or Medicare by a certain age.  I do NOT get the
> point here.
>
> I've read the info. on prescription drugs several times and have yet
> to make any real sense of it.  Trust our government to create a
> program that defies comprehension. I have got to deal with this on
> account of my DH, so can't ignore it:-(
>
> I do clearly see how the prescription drug programs will increase the
> bottom line of the providers of the plans but am not so sure they'll
> reduce that of the participants.
>
> The only 'red' that I see in our leader's proposal, so cogently
> stated below,  is the ink on my bottom line.  I've paid a wad for SS
> over the past 50 years.  If the surplus that used to exist had been
> invested and kept in the fund instead of spent on other stuff by
> every administration since inception, there wouldn't be a pending
> funding problem IMO.
>
> Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
> mtalt@hort.net
> Shadyside Garden Designs
> > Recently some of you on the list said you were slogging through the
> new
> > medicare choices. I received the following explanation from someone
> when
> > it first came out but deleted it. I'm glad to say that my sister
> just
> > sent it to me again and I thought it might be of some help to you.
> >
> > Kitty
> >  > > President Bush Explains Medicare Drug Bill > >
> >
> > > > WOMAN IN AUDIENCE: "I don't really understand. How is the new
> plan going to fix the problem?"
> >
> > > > PRESIDENT BUSH: (Verbatim response) > > "Because the -- all
> which is
> > on the table begins to address the big cost drivers. For example,
> how
> > benefits are calculated, for example, is on the table. Whether or
> not
> > benefits rise based upon wage increases or price increases. There's
> a
> > series of parts of the formula that are being considered. And when
> you
> > couple that, those different cost drivers, affecting those --
> changing
> > those with personal accounts, the idea is to get what has been
> promised
> > more likely to be -- or closer delivered to that has been promised.
> Does
> > that make any sense to you? It's kind of muddled. Look, there's a
> series
> > of things that cause the -- like, for example, benefits are
> calculated
> > based upon the increase of wages, as opposed to the increase of
> prices.
> > Some have suggested that we calculate -- the benefits will rise
> based
> > upon inflation, supposed to wage increases. There is a reform that
> would
> > help solve the red if that were put into effect. In other words,
> how
> > fast benefits grow, how fast the promised benefits grow, if those
> -- if
> > that growth is affected, it will help on the red."
> >
> >
> > Forward this to others -- so they, too, can understand...
> >
> >
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