1. From a facebook relative.This lovely statement.
Ok....here are the facts:
- This was written by the great anonymous according to Snopes. Not Donald Trump
- Yep, you must buy or pay a fine.
- So lets educate more doctors instead of saying that having people go to the doctors instead of dying is a bad thing.
- This bill wasn't written or passed by one committee take a look at the wikipedia article.
- Nope not exempted. Do a fact check on it.
- The benefits started before anything else. Coverage for up to 26 years old as well as no pre-existing conditions.
- Social Security isn't bankrupt. Medicare is to be "fixed" with the Affordable Health Care Act.
What can go wrong with a ill-informed population that promotes falsehoods? Lots....Learn to find out the facts.
This chart? came from another relative:

- This isn't from the Washington Times. Its from FoxNews Radio as far as I can trace it.
- I suggest that you visit The IRS to find the latest on the taxes and tax credits going under the affordable care act. Don't rely on Fox news for a non-corporate facts about the Affordable Care Act.
ObamaCare will be the largest tax in history...
Well, no.....
From the Washington Post:
Another: Obamacare will add 1.1 trillion to the deficit
Another no.....
- It lowers the deficit according the CBO or adds 340 billion over 10 years. When we spend over 635 billion every year on a defense budget.The one saves lives and the other takes lives. Which is more worth the money?
As to the peasant part: Fact Check it please.
July 8 email brought this one:
A message from Blue Cross Blue Shield
Professor Emeritus John W. Hill, JD, PhD
Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
MEDICARE
Look clearly at the 2014 rate compared to the 2013 rate.
For those of you who are on Medicare, read the following. It's short, but
important and you probably haven't heard about it in the Mainstream News:
"The per person Medicare Insurance Premium will increase from the present Monthly Fee of $96.40,
rising to:
$104.20 in 2012
$120.20 in 2013
And
$247.00 in 2014."
These are Provisions incorporated in the Obamacare Legislation, purposely
delayed so as not to confuse the 2012 Re-Election Campaigns. Send this to
all Seniors that you know, so they will know who's throwing them under the bus.
For those of you who are on Medicare, read the following. It's short, but
important and you probably haven't heard about it in the Mainstream News:
"The per person Medicare Insurance Premium will increase from the present Monthly Fee of $96.40,
rising to:
$104.20 in 2012
$120.20 in 2013
And
$247.00 in 2014."
These are Provisions incorporated in the Obamacare Legislation, purposely
delayed so as not to confuse the 2012 Re-Election Campaigns. Send this to
all Seniors that you know, so they will know who's throwing them under the bus.
Peggy Riehle
Internal Representative
Network Contracting
205-220-6778
Snopes says:
Snopes says:
| Origins: The short answer to the question of the whether these figures for Medicare insurance premiums are accurate is no. In the last few years, the standard monthly premiums for Medicare Part B have been set as follows: 2009: $96.40 2010: $110.50 2011: $115.40 2012: $99.90 (Many beneficiaries paid less than the listed amounts in 2010 and 2011 because of the "hold-harmless" provision of Medicare which states that if the dollar increase in your Medicare Part B premium is bigger than the dollar increase in your Social Security check, you don't have to pay the difference.) As for future Medicare Part B premium rates, the information cited above is wrong on two counts: No provision of the health care legislation passed during the Obama administration sets Medicare premium rates, nor is a whopping jump of over 100% to a $247.00 monthly premium in 2014 a realistic figure. New Medicare premium rates come out each fall and take effect in January. Medicare beneficiaries as a group are required to pay one-fourth the cost of running Medicare, and annual premiums are set at a figure calculated to achieve that level of revenue. Although the annual premium rates aren't officially set until they are announced each fall, Medicare administrators track trends and anticipated changes and use them to formulate projections of Medicare premiums for the next several years. According to the most recent report of the system's trustees, issued in May 2011, those projected premiums (as listed on page 218) are: 2013: $110.50 2014: $115.80 2015: $120.80 2016: $126.00 2017: $132.70 2018: $140.30 2019: $148.40 2020: $158.60 |
| Source: http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/medicare.asp July 8 from Facebook No most HMO overheads are less while Medicare is higher. And that doesn't even touch the insurance but not HMO crowd like Highmark and other "Cadillac" plans. But Politifact gives the Medicare costs a half-truth because it has a far lower overhead than anything else. |




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