Re: Medicare

Did you read Maurine Dowd this AM? Said she didn't want the Vice Voyeur "ogling her googling."


On Jan 21, 2006, at 12:30 PM, Chapel Ridge Wal Mart National Hearing Center wrote:

I was just joking about the age discrimination Marge.
But as to Big Brother....I'm sure you've been watching the Google situation.
Who will they spy on next?

Kitty
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From: "Marge Talt" <mtalt@hort.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 6:39 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Medicare


I rather doubt that's the reason....with the draft they want
something out of you; with SS and Medicare, they have to fork out to
you.  I think it's just plain old gov't. rigmarole.  You have to sign
up for SS by a certain date after you become 65 even if you don't
plan on retiring and collecting it until later.  Makes NO sense to
me.  Maybe it's just part of the big brother is watching you
syndrome, which seems to be getting worse and worse with each passing
day.

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
Shadyside Garden Designs

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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