A budget deal all but guarantees that people on Medicare will feel the pain.

[Better Believe It]

No free pass for Medicare recipients in debt talks
Associated Press
July 9, 2011

A debt-busting deal on the scale that President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner are seeking all but guarantees that people on Medicare would feel at least some of the pain.

If a deal ultimately leads to overhauling taxes, workers and their families could be on the hook also, facing potential limits on the tax-free status of job-based health insurance.

For Medicare, possibilities include higher premiums for upper-income retirees and new copayments and deductibles that affect all but the poor. For example, seniors do not currently face a copayment for home care. That might change if there's a deal.

A major proposal that would affect Medicare beneficiaries calls for changing the current cost-sharing rules, a hodgepodge of varying copayments and deductibles. The idea is to make people think twice before they schedule that test or exam ....

Read the full article at:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/07/09/ap/preswho/main20078163.shtmlA debt

[DURHAM D]

1. Palin's Death Panels? nt

[CountAllVotes]

2. Amounts for Persons with Higher Income Levels

As much as $369.10/mo. for some persons and that includes no supplemental plan or Medicare D, etc. Bare bones for the rich is what this is.

https://questions.medicare.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/2306/session/L2F2LzEvc2lkL3NCVTgxQXlr

[Sarah Ibarruri]

3. I can't believe this shit that's going on. I can't. What's wrong with the American people?

Are they all sheep? How could they put up with this? Why do they allow their elderly to suffer this way? What is WRONG with Americans????

[truedelphi]

4. The un rec squad is on this topic like

Flies on the proverbial.

I recced it up, and the count stayed at Zero!

[blkmusclmachine]

5. The truth hurts.

Better hide it fast.

[WillyT]

6. K & R !!!

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