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  If healthcare policy continues to be senior focused we’re going to have a whole generation that dies off before they can get their medical care. Healthcare for all is the only legitimate solution, and we need it yesterday or more like 10 years ago
context: I think this whole issue is presented wrong. I've invested in the US government for over 40 years. I mistakenly thought that the money I invested would be safer than investing in the stock market. I didn't know that the funds would be used for other purposes and some idiot would come up with a rule that Medicare can't negotiate with pharmaceutical companies.
  Looks like I was wrong. >
  
  It wasn't one idiot. It was the pharmaceutical companies who paid off a lot of people, or those people are invested in those companies. Shock shock, it's no wonder why it's so hard to stop them from banning insider trading. >
  
  Your right. And the government has borrowed 17+billion from the fund for other purposes. 
  No link but did just Google it. >
  
  Welcome to the club. >
  
  If the government wants more fn money they can squeeze it from our corporate overlord's record profits. >
  
  As a non American, I continue to be puzzled by the concept that until age 65 Americans must pay for their own healthcare, but at 65 a magic button is pushed, and then it is acceptable even to Republicans for the government to pay. >
  
  We still pay after 65 because Medicare doesn't cover everything. We have to buy a private insurance supplement policy for those things not covered. Same for eye care and dental care.  AND many doctors don't accept Medicare. They won't make enough money so basically a "fuck you" to people who don't have the supplement policies. 
  Only in America will you find gun care and health control. >
  
  Neither I nor my husband nor any member of my family have ever had a doctor refuse to see us because we’re on Medicare. Are you thinking of Medicaid? >
  
  I haven't had any problems in Atlanta with Medicare but my brother in New Orleans told me that he had to change doctors because he didn't accept Medicare! He said the reimbursements were too low. No, not Medicaid. >
  
  Now that I think of it, it could be because we all have pretty good supplemental insurance. Does your brother?  Well worth it. We hardly ever have an uncovered expense or co-pay. (Medical, not dental or vision, of course.) >
  
  So are their kids. These same seniors voted for systems that benefitted them in the long run over everyone else. >
  
  Yeah this is some of the messaging Dems are missing. People below a certain age will still be paying into a system they will never get to collect if this happens. All the focus is on people that will likely be grandfathered in to the current system. >
  
  The other possibility here is that if the system becomes hideously unfair enough, eventually it gets torn down - there's a wave of very-liberal voters in the process of washing away the political influence of the generation that was ok with this bs... gerrymandering and voter suppression might blunt the edge of it, but I don't get why the right / corporations insist on being maximally shitty, when people are, usually, fine with them being merely very shitty. >
  
  Short term gains are at the front of mind at all times. If you only care about what's right in front of you, the concept of long term loses is just work for another day. >
  
  Newsflash, so are the rest of us. Fuck for profit healthcare. >
  
  Everybody worth less than 20 million is getting ripped off… and sadly…. I have no reason to believe that will change >
  
  We all are being ripped of by the US healthcare system, not just seniors. >
  
  How bout including dental and vision, both of which are not covered. And Aldo, Medicare only covers 80% of your bill!! >
  
  anyone dealing with anything medical is getting ripped off. $30 for 1 chewable childrens tylenol? Gimme a fucking break. 
  My kid broke his arm. $30k. Wtf man. >
  
  "Yes, we are!" shouted the seniors, as they voted for Republicans who strip away consumer protections and try to cut Medicare. >
  
  Won’t someone think of the seniors for change? I know everyone says children are the future and panders toward their little pet issues like climate change, gun violence, living wage and housing concerns but what about those poor under represented seniors who certainly aren’t disproportionately represented in ever facet of our government./s >
  
  Seniors vote. Way more than disenfranchised young people, that’s for sure. 
  Repubs have been telling poor seniors that they don’t deserve to eat anything but mush (refuse to fund dentures/dental care) and that they don’t deserve to see (eye care). Funding senior medicare is a good way to shoehorn in progressive policies for everyobe >
  
  Not just seniors.  America is a top to bottom con-job.  We just don't recognize it because it's all been normalized.  We're all fish in water and the water is nothing but fraud and scams. >
  
  Nothing outright against social security in general, but that’s bullshit. If you’re in your 20’s you’re living life on legendary mode don’t let anyone tell you different lol. We’re paying for much more than social security too… every dumb economic policy we pretty much get to inadvertently pay for as they all retire and prepare to leave work. Fuck off. >
  
  Nothings gonna change, Biden already said he’d veto any kind of reform bill that comes to his desk >
  
  He will veto any thinly veiled money grab for big Pharma that the Republicans push. >
  
  I agree with you but He’s bought by big pharma too lol >
  
  r/leopardsatemyface >
  
  Seniors get tax and price breaks left and right that most of us do not receive.  They also tend to have more assets saved up than those who are not receiving price breaks and tax breaks. Cry me a river.  I can't wait until enough people vote to make them pull up their bootstraps the same way they treated anyone else but them who was down on their luck. >
  
  Are they though? My yearly social security tax is more than most seniors ever put into the system. >
  
  Seniors ripped off future generations... >
  
  Medicare HMO is a way to get taxpayer health care dollars into shareholder pockets, HUGE boondoggle!!! >
  
  Ripoff concerns aside, Advantage plans demonstrate how much additional coverage Medicare could provide directly on a non-profit basis if they would negotiate provider and drug charges like private insurers do.