Social Security cuts to pay for Medicare?

[EMAN51]

I was getting my hair cut at a salon. There was a woman telling an elderly woman that she would be getting "$200.00 or more less" in social security starting next year in order to pay for Medicare. The elderly woman looked panic stricken and said she couldn't afford that to occur. She was going to the senior center to confirm/deny this information. It was certainly the woman's intent to scare this elderly woman as to the "ills of Obamacare" (as she called it). I didn't have the facts and did not intercede. Does anyone know if this is part of the plan and will it go into effect next year?

[Avalux]

1. Seriously? No. n/t

[Pitr]

2. She is wrong

Medicare cannot deduct what is already deducted every month.

Social Security cannot shrink by law.

Tell that idiotic woman to read up on the law instead of listening to Fux.

[RebelOne]

3. I am receiving social security and I have not received

any notification of this. Maybe her Medicare payments are increasing by $200, but I don't think so

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Of course not. The lady doing the 'talking' was blowing hot air.

[jwirr]

5. I think that that kind of propaganda is a regular fare for the elderly.

My sil mother asks me every once in a while about some rw line of bull that she has heard somewhere. She is in her 80s and I just try to assure her that she will be alright. This is cruel and only to be expected from the right wing. It is their way. Unfortunately if no one tells them differently they will be voting for the gop. I am going to tell my sil that he should ask her who she is going to vote for and if he cannot get her to change her mind then do not take her to the polls. If she gets there herself so be it.

[virgogal]

6. I cannot imagine refusing to drive someone to the polls

unless they say they will vote for my choice.

How juvenile and petty.

[jwirr]

7. You would allow her to vote against her own interests because of

lies and propaganda? She is scared and does not understand what is happening. By the way many elderly are encouraged not to vote because they suffer from some type of dementia. When you no longer understand what it is you are voting for I do not think you should be voting. I work with many persons who are disabled like my 50 year old daughter who understands very little that happens around her - should she have the vote? I can guarantee that she would be refused a ballot and rightly so.

When I was working with the elderly I saw rethugs come into the nursing homes and bring absentee ballots - then proceed to "help" them vote. That is what they are doing now by scaring the elderly about their own security. At least with my friend I can see that they do not get to do that with her. By the way if I reach that state I damn well do not want anyone to let me vote against my own interests.

[virgogal]

8. I'm elderly. We are not all the same. I still wouldn't refuse the

request of giving someone a lift to the polls,no matter how they say they are going to vote.

I certainly wouldn't stand over anyone's shoulder as they voted,so who knows?