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Progressive dog

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15. Medicare is pretty complex

Reply to yurbud (Reply #6)

Tue Jan 30, 2018, 05:32 PM

Jan 2018

and requires that providers accept the government specified payment for each service-of which there are thousands. The ACA has provisions affecting Medicare payments that providers agreed to because of ACA's increase in covered patients. So now Medicare is tied to the ACA and few are paying attention.

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1944 poll: Would you rather have Social Security handle health insurance? [View all] yurbud Jan 2018 OP

Vouchers! Gabi Hayes Jan 2018 #1

'Medicare For All' works for me! Hermit-The-Prog Jan 2018 #2

I don't believe employer paid insurance was very common until several years later MichMan Jan 2018 #3

It's ironic too, because a lot of people don't realize how much it costs their employer yurbud Jan 2018 #5

FDR chose not to tie Progressive dog Jan 2018 #4

ACA is assaultable because it is a complex incremental program yurbud Jan 2018 #6

Social Security had an incremental Progressive dog Jan 2018 #9

I'm not saying it should have been done up front, but it would have been popular at any time yurbud Jan 2018 #10

Upending over 1/6 of the economy, Progressive dog Jan 2018 #12

I don't think anyone in Washington is thinking of the low level claims processors yurbud Feb 2018 #19

Because the bailout was one time and saved the economy Progressive dog Feb 2018 #20

Medicare is pretty complex Progressive dog Jan 2018 #15

For people ON Medicare, it is relatively simple yurbud Feb 2018 #16

Medicare covers about 1/6 of the population Progressive dog Feb 2018 #17

the 20%, donut holes and the like are the monkey wrenches I mentioned yurbud Feb 2018 #18

So is Social Security. Ken Burch Jan 2018 #7

Social Security is still in business Progressive dog Jan 2018 #8

Not quite accurate. LanternWaste Jan 2018 #13

FDR did not tie medical to social security-that is a fact Progressive dog Jan 2018 #14

People were all for govt programs until civil rights when non whites would benefit JI7 Jan 2018 #11