You, the American taxpayer, pays the balance of about $900-$1200/month per senior citizen. The average senior pays about $300-$325/month for Medicare Part B health care coverage for physician visits and care.Medicare Part B is a mandatory-enrollment (meaning everyone is forced into it whether they can afford their own health care plans or not, like Warren Buffett or Bill Gates) federal program that is fully 75% paid for by taxpayers, not seniors.Medicare is NOT an insurance plan but a government-funded (read: ‘Taxpayer Dollars’) program that redistributes money from people like you to pay for the majority of every single senior citizens’ health care bills each and every year.Here’s some basic, useful and yet ‘inconvenient truths’ about Medicare that you should burn into your memory banks: Remember, there are at least three intervening elections that have to take place before Obamacare becomes fully operational, if ever, in this nation. And apparently, that is where we are heading even as HHS came out with a report that shows ObamaCare increasing the cost of health care, not decreasing it.
The debate over Obamacare was not about replacing it with a pure private-based market system it was about whether to push it more towards a complete socialized system more like the ones currently in play in Europe and Canada. Fifty percent of every dollar spent on health care in America today comes from a federal or state government source of funding in Medicare, Medicaid, HHS, or research from any of the alphabet-soup named agencies ranging from NIH to CDC.
It is already a form of ‘socialized medicine’ whether we want to admit it or not. Here’s the truth about our current America health care system, to return to the sign above. We don’t think the Founders would be very happy seeing a welfare state that encompasses even the very wealthy in our society and a tax system riddled with all sorts of special tax favors for this set of special interests (meaning ones we agree with) or that set of special interests (meaning those you support). We personally support a government that defends our borders and provides a safety net to those who are physically or mentally incapable of providing for themselves. Then we can proceed with some firm set of political principles based on facts and figures, not emotions and polemics. It is time to make some fundamental, hard decisions about what we want our government to do and, more importantly, NOT do. We can’t have ‘everything for nothing’ and not pay for everything you may want government to provide for everyone else. But universal coverage and an ever-growing population has a way of turning even the best, most altruistic programs of 80 years ago into something that are just simply unsustainable going forward given the laws of economics, finance and taxes.
Keep your government hands off my medicare free#
It started as the ‘Supplemental Security System’ designed to get money to our moms and dads and grandparents who were starving during the Truly Large Recession That Turned into The Great Depression Because of Stupid Misguided Policies Like Raising Taxes, Cutting Spending and Limiting Free Trade. Some of it has been progress like Social Security. We have had socialism creeping into our previously independent American cowboy psyche for at least the past 80 years or so in some form of government program or another. Receiving copious amounts of taxpayer assistance in any form, ladies and gentlemen, is the very definition of ‘socialism’.
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