Posted by
Sheila on Wednesday, September 09, 2009 9:42:45 PM
I have a question for all the people who are on Medicare. Did it offer you more choice in coverage or less? As far as I know, everyone on medicare HAD to sign up at age 65. Is that more choice? And as far as I know medicare is already running out of money. You can't have your own insurance instead of medicare, because no one will cover you if you are medicare age.
So please educate me. How is a government healthcare plan going to offer more "choice"? How is it going to be cheaper, since medicare is going broke and taxes will have to be increased to pay not only for medicare, but for another government plan, and medicare will have to give up 500 K currently in the system?
Since many doctors have opted not to take medicare patients, how does that help people get better healthcare coverage? For those who would like to opt out of medicare and go for private insurance, the answer is, they can't, because no insurance will cover them at age 65.
So how is a "new" government option going to offer more "choice"? Where will all the doctors and nurses come from who will need to be added to the system to take care of the millions that will be added to the system?
Please educate me on this, since I obviously don't get it.