GOP/Ryan Budget Plan Targets Seniors...Again

Seniors would have no problem affording health care if our Medicare Trust fund was not raided $575 billion to cut our doctors' pay and our medical care to provide for people who never paid a cent for expensive medical care. I have been refused medical care after being with a doctor for two years because I have Medicare I now have a new primary for one year and a Supplement so I would be accepted. I understand that a surtax will soon be charged on the Supplement - unlike non-existent Supplement charges to Congress and wealthy federal employees. Of course, millionaire Congress receives lavish medical free with nary a thought to being "means tested" and a surcharge if they should ever have to pay for their medical. Tricky federal employees pay l.2% of their PREMIUM - not their income like the rest of us SERFS, paying at least 13% of income. The Federal hierarchy has banded together to protect and conceal their windfall salaries, benefits and early retirement paid for by the overburdened taxpayers who formerly were middle-class. We have had retirement age raised to 67 while federal and state employees are retiring at 55 and we pay their early-retirement Medicare. Ask Lieberman, retiring with $millions pension and $30 million campaign chest which he should not be allowed to keep WHILE HE HAS THE NERVE TO PROPOSE MEDICARE AGE BE RAISED TO 67, at least a 20% cut. How many of us will ever live to receive anything from Social Security if retirement age is raised to 70? DON'T DARE TO "MEANS TEST" SOCIAL SECURITY RECIPIENTS WITHOUT DOING SAME TO EVERYONE ELSE. IF A SURTAX IS CHARGED ON SUPPLEMENTS, THOSE THAT CAN REALLY AFFORD IT SHOULD BE WHACKED SO THEY WILL HAVE TO RATION THEIR VISITS TO THEIR DOCTORS. WHILE WE ARE ON THE SUBJECT, WELFARE, MEDICAID, SSI, UNEMPLOYED SHOULD BE ASSESSED $5 PER THEIR USUALLY"SOCIAL" VISITS TO THE DOCTOR. Don't tell me Welfare people don't use their coverage wantonly. I was married to a doctor and they would be sitting on the floor when I came in - everyone knowing one another. This was in Bridgeport, mayor Daley's neighborhood where we had Welfare and City workers - both of whom extremely over-used the system. Do I understand $575 billion is not enough? Will Medicare Trust fund now be plundered $25 more billion per year under Obama's new budget for the "Affordable" medical act to pay for neer-do-well shirkers? . This new, expensive, true "entitlement" should be paid for by a combination of Federal and State revenues under Medicaid. Most Seniors now regret they ever got involved in either the Social Security or Medicare Trusts.

I am glad to see that you are taking a strong stand against Paul Ryan and the GOP anti-senior proposals. I believe the most important action the NCPSSM can take in this ellection year is to apply as much pressure as possible on the GOP neah sayers and perticularly on Paul Ryan in his bid to be reelected.

Obamacare will be a disaster for us all. Look at Canada and watch "Sick and Sicker". On the other hand, I remember my ne'er-do-well cousin who refused to take care of his health, became diabetic and was in and out of hospitals in and around Houston, Texas. When he finally died, at home, he had availed himself of healthcare to the tune of half a million dollars, no doubt. Something should be done but what?

We need to wake up AMERICA and kick the BUMS (Republicans)out, all they talk is balancing the budget on the backs of the seniors and working class to give to the rich sobs and big banks, big oil, and the drug companies.

Of course it is medicare again. why don't they start at a certain age say 70, and have the rest start savings plans. Also Obamas plan seems to take from medicare and give to the freeloaders on medicaid. When do they start paying for any thin g they get. and now it is cell phones and free minutes. Mine costs a fortune....My medicare and social security is not an entitlement. I paid for 60 some odd years for that, so I could retire without having to worry where it would come from. Wake up congressmen. and by the way you should be on the same plan as the people who put you in office. Thank You