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3. You pay $390 a month for Part B because you make too much money

Fri May 20, 2016, 09:07 AM

May 2016

The little secret is that Medicare Part B for seniors is "means tested" so that most pensioners pay (as I recall) $99 per person per month but, depending on your income the previous year, that could range up to $399. It sounds like you are at the max income level for Part B. Part A (Hospitalization) is "free" to all pensioners. Since most seniors qualify for the minimum, there hasn't been much discussion of this.

I am pretty sure that "free" Medicare for All will have a similar range of costs to the recipients where high income individuals will pay more.

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Realistic Healthcare- Medicare for all doesn't cut it [View all] wilt the stilt May 2016 OP

You might start by reading Bernie's plan which Kip Humphrey May 2016 #1

His can't be paid for wilt the stilt May 2016 #2

Too bad you are misinformed and self defeatist... Kip Humphrey May 2016 #4

I am hardly misinformed wilt the stilt May 2016 #9

You pay $390 a month for Part B because you make too much money 1939 May 2016 #3

Here are some numbers 1939 May 2016 #5

These people who come in here with their monkey wrenches angstlessk May 2016 #6

actually I will pay $243 wilt the stilt May 2016 #8

You may pay a little more for a few years zalinda May 2016 #10

I'm getting about 4 calls a day on this wilt the stilt May 2016 #11

If Congress properly funded it, it would... Wounded Bear May 2016 #7