Democrats organize to fight back

[Eric the Green]

(11-16-2016, 08:43 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(11-16-2016, 06:04 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: How are vouchers going to work in medicare? Also, isn't it easy just to cut them, so that we who paid for it don't get much coverage?

They're likely to work similarly to existing Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D plans.

We'll have to pay the premiums for Advantage/Part D, including Part B, and also Part A. Which will all be more expensive. And you trust Ryan to raise the amount of these vouchers to cover all this, and to cover the steeply-rising costs of all these parts? If so, I've got some ocean front property in Miami Beach to sell you.

Quote:Medicare is going to get cut any way you slice it - or rather, is going to grow at the normal rate of inflation instead of the rate of medical inflation - it's just that vouchers give you more of a choice in how it works.

It takes away bargaining power for prices, and leaves you to the mercies of small insurers, who will raise your premiums and deductibles (or should I say mine). Small insurance companies are inefficient and eat up our steeply-rising payments to pay their rising profits.

Quote:As for what you paid for, ever since Bush added prescription drug coverage, Medicare has cost about three times as much as what gets paid into it.

Because the advice of progressives has not been followed, and the monopoly of American drug companies has been maintained.

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(11-16-2016, 06:12 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Progressives don't agree with you, Warren. Are you so sure you are right?

I'm much more sure now that I know progressives don't agree with me, since they're almost always wrong.

The article posted was right. Your ideology is not.