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Medicare You Can Buy Into

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On March 9th, Representative Alan Grayson of Florida introduced the Public Option Act:

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for an option for any citizen or permanent resident of the United States to buy into Medicare.

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This Act may be cited as the `Public Option Act’ or the `Medicare You Can Buy Into Act’.

It’s extremely simple: It just adds a short section to the law governing Medicare, that says that anyone who is a US resident and either a citizen or legal permanent resident, may enroll for Medicare, and pay a premium as determined by actuaries based on their age group (divided into 10-year cohorts).

As of today, the bill has 80 co-sponsors, including half of the Massachusetts delegation:

  • MA-1: John Olver

  • MA-3: Jim McGovern

  • MA-4: Barney Frank (one of the original cosponsors)

  • MA-8: Mike Capuano

  • MA-10: Bill Delahunt

What about the other half?  Neal, Markey, Tierney, Tsongas, Lynch … do you live in one of their districts?  Call, ask them if they’ll sign on as co-sponsors, and comment here to tell us what  they said.

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  1. is here.

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    p>I think this is an excellent idea.  The system is already in place so it will reduce the expense of creating a new one.  The insurance industry and all other health industries would be standing right behind every congressperson as they tried to create a separate plan, so this idea avoids that whole mess.  

  3. and if it does doctors will drop Medicare patients/ refuse to accept Medicare patients.

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    p>Will have an income provision so that in order to qualify you must be living under a bridge abutment and dumpsta diving for food.

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    p>Remember it’s not about health care but about the control of health by people who want to depopulate the earth down to “more manageable” levels.

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