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Posted 11/15/2016 7:56 PM (GMT 0)
Many news sites on my news feed are saying Paul Ryan will attempt to push his agenda to phase out Medicare in 2017. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ryan-plans-to-phase-out-medicare-in-2017
I confirmed it on Ryans page so I know this is factual.
I know he wanted to make this a voucher program and it looks like it has a possibility of happening since one political party has all three houses. This disease has taken all my time , energy and money so I don't know what I will do if I lose my Medicare and my private insurance only covers some of my medical bills with huge gaps and deductibles and copays. If they are allowed to dismantle Medicare, I will eventually go bankrupt and probably die . Is anyone else worried about this? Maybe I need to move to Canada.
Are there other options for us?
Posted 11/15/2016 9:06 PM (GMT 0)
worrying will only make your health worse. People, even Republicans like their Medicare......you will probably be ok, but we might blow up from nuclear war, or the planet will die from global warming and pollution, or you might get shot from no gun control and riots among the poor who are about to get much poorer.....ok, you can worry if you want to;-)
Posted 11/15/2016 10:17 PM (GMT 0)
But he's going to Make America Great Again.

What's the saying? Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely? Now that they have all 3 branches of government they basically have absolute power and they are already starting to overreach with planning on privatizing medicare and social security.

Right now it seems like they don't know what they really want to do with the ACA/Obamacare, other than to get the first African American President's name off of it.
Posted 11/16/2016 1:51 AM (GMT 0)
I'm very concerned too since my husband's nearing that age. I was reading about it last week and the author of the article reminded readers that it had been tried before and there was a big backlash which stopped it. But in the current political environment. I'm not confident that a backlash would stop anything. Sigh.
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