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...only important if you accept lies as truth....
Steve, Bob, It's been a bad day for the truth; this morning Merrill
forwarded some very clever, very false information once again
challenging Obama's birth. The birthers seem unable to stop
themselves. Maybe they oughta see a shrink about their compulsion.
This evening Steve, and you Bob, forwarded sinister nonsense about
Obama's sly plan to raise monthly Medicare premiums in 2014 to an
outrageous $247.
Makes you wanna hate the creep in the White House for things he isn't, and
hasn't done. But then, the charlatans who hate him so intensely can't
congenitally limit themselves to the things Obama has actually done wrong;
they are compelled to manufacture the foulest kind of personal
assassination in an attempt to persuade all America we mistakenly elected
the biggest bum who ever lived to lead our native land. I think
it's also to convince themselves they got every right to hate the
man to his core by making up facts and crimes he never committed--and
that, friends, is really sad.
They don't seem capable of admitting to themselves that there may really
have been much more destructive bums to hold the Oval Office the past forty
years, maybe because those Presidents weren't Democrats and, particularly,
because they weren't black.
Please remember, no matter what you may wish to believe, Obama
didn't bring on the recession or the current descent into poverty of
more than a quarter of the
American population, not all by himself.
He ain't blameless but neither is he mainly to blame
Ask Merrill to forward the dissection of the latest lies from the birthers,
because I am tired of repeating myself. Instead, add the following
to your store of legitimate knowledge, and think twice before
passing along ugly tales without checking them at least... twice.
In short, don't let the bogeymen control your minds.
Before
you reread the junk about Obama's alleged Medicare trickery, please read
the facts as they exist, and then have the kindness to pass them
along--hopefully, with Merrill's new information about birther
distortions--to the people who sent you the junk in the first place.
By now, you should have realized that you've been too often taken to la la
land by some really creepy con artists. You may have the
same hope for the outcome of the 2012 election, but I know you guys,
and I don't believe you are willing to deliberately lie like they do, but
you two seem to take
undue pleasure passing along turds.
Art
Premium Nonsense On Medicare
Posted on April 1,
2011
Q: Will the new health care law raise Medicare’s basic
monthly premium to $247 in 2014, as a viral message claims?
A: No, Medicare officials project the basic
premium will be less than half that. But the law will eventually cause 14 percent
of seniors with incomes over $85,000 a year ($170,000 for couples) to pay
higher "income-related" premiums, up from 5 percent currently.
FULL QUESTION
Please advise the accuracy of contents below.
Thank you,
MEDICARE PAY INCREASE
For those of you who are on Medicare (or will be soon), read the short
article below.
It is about the monthly amount of money you are going to pay into
Medicare in 2011, 2012 and the huge increase you will pay in 2013. You will
pay it.
Social Security
Congress will not allow an increase in the social security COLA (cost of
living adjustment). However, the per person monthly Medicare insurance
premium will be increased from the 2009 premium of $96.40 to $104.20 in
2010, $120.20 for the year 2011, AND a yearly increase to a wonderful
$247.00 in 2014. Thank You Obamacare!
In the meantime, Congress gave themselves a $3,000 a month Cost of
Living Adjustment!
Send this to all seniors that you know.
REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER 2012
FULL ANSWER
This widely circulating message is similar to a falsehood-filled screed that went around
last year, urging "retribution" against members of Congress
in the 2010 midterm elections. This message makes somewhat different
accusations — also false — and urges voters to "remember" in
November 2012.
- It falsely claims
"Congress gave themselves a $3,000 a month Cost of Living
Adjustment," when the truth is that Congress voted to deny itself
any pay increase at all, both for 2010 and 2011.
- It wrongly blames
Congress for disallowing any cost-of-living increase for Social
Security recipients. It’s true there was no COLA for Social Security
recipients in 2010 or in 2011, but that was due to the workings of a
long-standing formula and not the result of any vote by the current
Congress or the previous one. We covered this in detail in 2009 and
the Social Security Administration has an
explanation posted as well.
- It claims that
"those of you who are on Medicare" can thank
"Obamacare" for increases in the per-person monthly Medicare
premium — "to a wonderful $247.00 in 2014." This is also
false. The basic premium for Medicare Part B (which covers physician
services) was indeed $96.40 in 2009. But the
other numbers are all wrong. It was $110.50 last year, for example,
and not $104.20 as claimed. And it is $115.40 this year, not $120.20
as claimed.
Actually, only 27 percent of Medicare beneficiaries are paying the basic
rate. The rest — 73 percent — are paying less under a "hold
harmless" provision triggered by the lack of a cost-of-living increase
in Social Security this year or last year. Most are still paying $96.40.
As for the future, nobody can say with precision what the basic Part B
premium will be next year or the year after, let alone in 2014. The premium
is set each year at a level calculated to pay for 25 percent of the cost of
the coverage. Medicare officials do keep close watch on the trends,
however. And when we contacted Medicare’s Office of the Actuary, we were
given these projections — the most recent available — which are current as
of the president’s budget for fiscal year 2012 issued in mid-February:
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Medicare Part B
Standard Premium (projected, February 2011)
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2012
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$108.20
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2013
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$112.10
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2014
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$117.10
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Source: Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Office of theActuary
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Subject: Fw: Fwd: Medicare Premium
Increase Rate for 2014 IMPORTANT
I did not check to
make sure this info is correct
Sent: Thursday, February
09, 2012 8:40 AM
Subject: Fwd: FW: Medicare Premium Increase Rate for 2014
IMPORTANT
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Medicare Premium Increase Rate
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Look clearly at the
2014 rate compared to the 2013 rate.
For those of you who are on Medicare, read the following.
It's short, but important and you probably haven't heard
about it in the Mainstream News:
"The per person Medicare Insurance Premium will
increase from the present monthly Fee of
$96.40, rising to:
$104.20 in 2012
$120.20 in 2013
And
$247.00 in 2014."
These are Provisions incorporated in the Obamacare
Legislation, purposely
delayed so as not to confuse the 2012 Re-Election
Campaigns. Send this to all Seniors that you know,
so they will know who's throwing them under the
Bus.
REMEMBER THIS IN NOVEMBER 2012 AND VOTE!!!
From now
through November 2012 this should be required weekly or at
least monthly, reading - BY ALL WHO VOTE!!!
Did you
notice who Obama threatened when he wasn't getting his way
on raising the debt ceiling?
He threatened to not pay:
Social Security Retirees,
Military Retirees, Social Security disability and Federal
Retirees.
Now.. Let this sink in really good -
He did not threaten to stop payments to illegal aliens, he did not
threaten to take frivolous benefits such as Internet access
away from violent inmates.
He did not offer to fire some of the thousands of unnecessary federal
employees that he hired.
He did
not offer to cut down on his or his wife's frivolous gallivanting around.They went to Hawaii for
17 days over Christmas 2011.
He did
not threaten to not pay the
senators and representatives or any of their staff.
He did not threaten to take
benefits away from welfare recipients.
He did not threaten the food
stamp programs.
He did not threaten to not pay foreign aid.
He did not threaten to cut
back on anything that involves his base voters.
The list could go on and on. He
is in full political re-election mode!
* Why are we allowing this person to destroy this wonderful
country with his selfishness and his lies?
* His type of change is killing our country. He needs to be
stopped and only our Votes can stop him.
* Do not forget about his tactics when it's election time.
Vote Obama OUT of the Presidency in 2012.
LET'S MAKE 2012 - THE END OF AN ERROR!
"Democracy... Is two wolves and a lamb voting on what
to have for lunch.
Liberty ... Is a well-armed
lamb contesting the vote." -- Benjamin Franklin
AMERICA ..... HOME OF THE
FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE
PRAY FOR OUR TROOPS
ELECTION 2012 IS COMING!!!
A Nation of Sheep Breeds a Government of Wolves! I'M 100%
for PASSING THIS ON!!! Let's Take a Stand!!!
Obama: Gone!
Borders: Closed!
Language: English only
Culture: Constitution, and the Bill of Rights!
Drug Free: Mandatory Drug Screening before Welfare!
NO freebies to: Non-Citizens!
We the people are coming
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