--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex <no_re...@...> wrote:
>
> > > I'm enrolled in the government plan,
> > > almost everyone around here is, since
> > > it's an automatic payroll deduction.
> > > But I'm on an employee group plan
> > > provided by my employer. I make a
> > > small co-pay, but I'm not sick, so I
> > > don't use the plan very much. You
> > > can't use both at the same time.
> > >
> Bhairitu wrote:
> > I guess that makes you a hypocrite or
> > at least a very selfish person. You're
> > saying "I've got mine, but I don't
> > want anyone else to have it."
> >
> You still don't seem to get it - we
> want to expand the Medicare to cover
> everyone AND bring down the cost of
> health care.
>
> Everybody is on the government plan, -
> there's no opt-out, it's an automatic
> payroll deduction. When you reach your
> full retirement age, you get Medicare.
>
Hi Will,
Wouldn't this end up like SS where there are less people working as a
proportion of those collecting?
Wouldn' this plan hinge on full employment which is rare?
I would think that the people who don't work would be a problem.
It would be nice if everyone could be taken care of- hope it could work out.