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Originally Posted by will76
I'm very clear on how much I already pay. This rant/post was because now there is one more thing that we need to pay for. I just feel like writting a blank check some times. When will it be enough? when no one makes over 250K any more because of taxes?
And if they fixed the fraud and the money went to people who deserved it I would be fine with it.
But you can have an attitude like you have, hey just let them take more money from you. Don't hold them accountable, think that the money they are taking from you is all going to people who really need it. If they don't fix the problems they will ALWAYS need more money to throw at it and who do you think they going to keep coming back to, to get more ?
Do some research on how much money (billions) in fraud there is with medicare. Instead of cutting the waste like any responsible entity would do, they just tax people who make over 250K a year to expand Medicare. If they aren't taxing us more to pay for their failures, they are printing more money.
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Will, dont overlook your last paragraph there. Remember, the republican leadership trying to say that this bill cuts medicare.. they actually said it STEALS money from medicare to pay for itself. Well, Obama had spoken extensively about cutting fraud waste and abuse from medicare for a solid year, and it's never gotten much attention.
Here's how it worked. You set up a storefront (dont worry, you never go there) in a stripmall. You call yourself a prosthetic limb and wheelchair store. You bill medicare hundreds of thousands of dollars. because you see, medicare pays out FIRST, and flag a new recipient. They visit the "storefront" a couple of months later, by which time you are long gone and setting up shop hundreds if miles away already. You get rich from medicare fraud, medicare never catches you. Until now. NOW that fraud and abuse is going to be stopped. NOW there will be new payout rules to prevent the blatant theft from those public coffers. BECAUSE of this bill, all that money that we gave to scammers in the past is being used to pay for medical care as intended.
And thats just one example of a proposal, some frantic spin, and what passage will really mean in real terms. In short, what you are complaining about re: medicare fraud, waste and abuse, is something that has been in the bill the entire time.