{"id":93126,"date":"2019-12-03T10:30:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T14:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=93126"},"modified":"2019-12-03T09:51:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T13:51:04","slug":"something-to-jump-start-your-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=93126","title":{"rendered":"Something to Jump Start Your Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Health care insurance is a big issue with voters who are Democrats or leaning toward that side of the fence. This article from NPR examines that issue from several angles, but does not go into real details about it, mostly skimming the surface with two types of offers: Medicare For All with no public option, and MFA plus a public option.<\/p>\n

From the article: \u00a0Polling doesn’t make that clear. On the one hand, Democrats and Democratic-leaning respondents in the KFF poll say when it comes to health care, the candidate they trust most is\u00a0Sen. Bernie Sanders<\/a>\u00a0of Vermont (who has been pushing a Medicare for All plan since at least 1993).<\/p>\n

Yet those same people say they prefer\u00a0a public option<\/a>\u00a0(of the sort supported by former\u00a0Vice President Joe Biden)<\/a>\u00a0to Sanders’ Medicare for All plan.<\/p>\n

That voter preference for the public option strategy was borne out in a separate\u00a0Quinnipiac poll<\/a>\u00a0released last week, in which 36% of respondents say Medicare for All is a good idea while 52% say it is a bad idea.<\/p>\n

Sanders is all-in on Medicare for All. “I wrote the damn bill,” he keeps reminding reporters. Biden and the rising-in-the-polls\u00a0Pete Buttigieg<\/a>, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., are firmly in favor of a more moderate approach.<\/p>\n

“We take a version of Medicare. We let you access it if you want to. And if you prefer to stay on your private plan, you can do that, too,” Buttigieg said at the\u00a0Democrats’ October debate<\/a>. “That is what most Americans want.” \u2013 article<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2019\/12\/03\/784238658\/which-health-care-strategy-has-the-edge-among-democrats-and-swing-voters<\/a><\/p>\n

Note that there are no details, just the general no-choice versus choices, which was what Obamacare was supposed to provide. Such things have details but are never released to the public until the damage is done. The hysteria that surrounded Howbadismycare, in addition to Pelosi\u2019s blas\u00e9 \u2018we have to pass it to find out what\u2019s in it\u2019 response when asked about it, was enough to make anyone suspicious.<\/p>\n

Real Medicare, the retirement plan you pay for when you\u2019re in the workaday world, is not the same thing that these bozos are proposing. Medicare as we know it was added to your paycheck tax by the Johnson administration in 1964. Furthermore, eliminating public insurance as an option means that those insurance carriers specializing in health insurance will be put out of business, which means those employees will be out of jobs. Ooopsss! Obviously, that doesn’t occur to boneheads like Sanders.<\/p>\n

If you haven\u2019t received the 2020 Medicare Plan guide by now, call up your local SocSec office and ask for it. The real problem with the retirement Medicare plan is that when Plan B was enacted and added to it, the fee was and still is deducted from your Social Security check. That means that if you did not have an IRA or any retirement plan through work, and your only retirement resource is SSRI, you\u2019re screwed. And this ain’t the 1960s, when free clinics sprang up to treat hippies and hippie chicks who had gotten themselves into a medical tangle of some kind.<\/p>\n

But I have a suggestion: since the SSRI Trust will run out of cash one of these days and the monthly amount is planned to be reduced by up to 23%, or possibly less at 21%, in 2034, then start taxing all income, earned and unearned<\/em>, for Social Security tax instead of using a cutoff point as is in place now, and include the Medicare tax in it, because you are taxed at your full income for Medicare but not Social Security.<\/p>\n

Why do I say this? Because those who are so stinking rich that they can write off nearly all their income at tax time are the people who are not contributing to those funds, and that includes Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden and his offspring, Pelosi, and that bimbo from NYC, Alexandria Occasionally-Conscious. Make those twits pay for it, too. Warren is squawking about taxing the rich, just as Sanders has been doing, so drain their pockets and leave the rest of us alone. Oh, did I leave Warren off\u00a0 my list of whom to tax? Yeah, tax her, too!!<\/p>\n

There’s a joke there about Sanders, but not gonna use it right now. And don’t squawk about the article coming from NPR. You have to know what the opposition is thinking(?) and doing if you want to defeat them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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