Reply #18: two solutions [View All]

[grasswire]

1. Medicare should not be the primary payer when the patient has access to private comprehensive insurance. Let the insurance company pay and medicare be the supplemental.

2. Means test. WHY NOT means test?? So many other programs are means tested. Food stamps, housing, certain kinds of loans, college assistance....so MANY programs are means tested.

Why should Medicare not be means tested?? Medicaid is. There is no reason why a retiree (for example) with a paid-for home, a fat pension, another insurance option, investments, etc., should be getting free medical care while the poorest are cut from the systems. Means test for $500,000 net worth excluding the home. Something like that.