Medicare premiums may rise by 17 percent (Next year)

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http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/nation/8280954.htm

Medicare beneficiaries could face a whopping 17 percent premium increase next year followed by several years of substantial increases, the program's chief actuary said Thursday.

The projected $11.50-a-month increase -- to $78.10 from the current $66.60 -- would be the largest since Medicare premiums began at $3-a-month in 1967. The exact increase will be announced this fall.

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1. Gee, thanks AARP

Without you AARP, that bullshit Medicare bill never would have passed. This 17% increase is all your fault.

[The Zanti Regent]

2. Don't forget $35 more for the Pill Bill!

I wonder what all those fools with AARP cards will do when they see over $100 taken out of their Social Security checks when the Pill Bill kicks in.

Oh, I wonder how much money the will save with the AARP drug discount card. 10 %

There's your AARP--Always Advancing Republican Principles.

F AARP, Join the only organization that defends seniors, the Alliance for Retired Americans at http://www.retiredamericans.org/

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3. This will help pay the subsidies to be paid to corporations which cut

the employer-paid portion of any prescription drug benefit currently provided to their retirees.

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4. What a fucking joke

IF retirees can't see this giant pile of horseshit for what it is and if it doesn't enrage them, they deserve every bad thing that happens to them.

Anyone over 65 should be rioting in the streets, or at least in front of AARP headquarters. They were all sold down the river by people they thought they could trust.