Reply #6: "Increasingly popular" only because ALL medicare participants [View All]

[SoCalDem]

HAVE to choose a plan or risk paying huge premiums later on. Lots are choosing the bare-bones plans NOW and trying desperatly to cling to hope they won't NEED a more comprehensive one later..and since you CANNOT have private AND the medicare plan, look for more and more retirement medical plans to S T O P as soon as they can possibly do it. Companies who have been providing retirement medical, for people who EARNED them by taking LESS in wages while they worked, will lave their retirees out in the cold, scrambling for these bogus plans.

It's downright CRIMINAL the way they set this thing up. To ballyhoo it as a great benefit for older people is a scam. There ARE some who will get great coverage...but they had it BEFORE, so there is little change for them..

The vast "middle" will face the donut hole fiasco because it was set up that way.. Wealthy people probably chose a plan, but if there's a lot of paperwork, they probably just pay whatever the meds cost, and don;t blink an eye.. the very poor still get total coverage, so it's the mushy middlers who take it in the shorts again..