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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (5794)	10/28/2008 7:29:42 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

If required to take Medicare, he will no longer be allowed to make deposits for his medical expenses." It's really hard for me to comment on this. From everything I know, he is wrong about having to take Medicare. OTOH, he surely wouldn't be so stupid as to sue when he is dead wrong. The story is pretty muddled--it's not even clear whether he's talking about Part A, Part B, or both--and I am at a loss to venture much in the way of comment. 96.40/mo (or higher if you have income above 85K/person) That's true. I got caught in the means testing of Part B, which has been in effect for only a couple of years. Part A is free so I doubt many opt out. Federal employees generally aren't advantaged by taking Part B. I have no clue what the reference to Clinton's coupling of SS and Medicare is about. is a retired federal worker who contributed throughout his career to a health savings account. This makes no sense, either. The feds didn't start offering health savings accounts until after I retired so he couldn't have been contributing more than five or six years. My instinct on this is that the guy may be some sort of weirdo.