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

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (10220)	10/6/2009 4:39:54 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 42652

because medicare premiums will surely increase. This has come up already. Medicare premiums won't increase--something about they can't increase if SS doesn't. There was discussion that those who pay a premium for their Medicare due to means testing would have huge increases to make up the difference but there is legislation pending--passed in the house, I think--that would hold those steady as well. Back to the original topic, the legal case, Medicare premiums are irrelevant because anyone opposed to being covered by Medicare would not have signed up for Part B and Part A has no premium. It was the tax that was at issue. If they raise the Part B premiums for the means tested, I will most likely drop my Part B. It already isn't a good value for me and that would make it much less so.