So what is he going to do for medicare recipients?
Medidicare is great if you have the money for the co-payment. Doctor visit and medication is not to bad to meet with those on limited income. Go to the hospital and you can rack up a big co-payment due.
Medicare is not wirth merde if your income limits you on what you can pay for co-pay.
Probably a lot of people do not even decide to get the care because of the cost.

Another thing.
I posted a couple links in my blog about the ACA and insurance, Reading thru one of them is that people will be able to buy insurance for what they can afford called premium levels that contain the max the insurance will cover. As I see it an insured person will still have to make co-pays based on their policy level.
I really do not think the ACA is going to chip in a subsidy for everyone to get a platinum policy.
Check that part out and let me know what you find.

Those that meet or are below the 138% of the poverty line will pay nothing after subsidies.
MEDICARE style single payer IS BEST for all.
The Medical Industrial Complex AND BIG PHARMA
are spending many millions to get it struck down by any means possible for obvious reasons.
It hurts their bottom lines,bonuses for execs etc.

The fraud alone in the billions similar to the fraud by Columbia HSC when ran by Republican Governor Rick Scott of Florida perpetuated on Medicare and Medicaid was in the billions of dollars due to fraudulent claims submitted which resulted in the largest fine in U.S. history (1.7 billion)on Columbia HSC.

I pay $110 per month for MEDICARE and another $140 per month for a supplemental plan that covers what they don't pay and and am on 3 medications that are generic that cost me a total of $120 per year.

$260 per month is a bargain for what I get which if through a for profit insure would cost me at a minimum of $1,000 per month for the full coverage.

I pay a $10 co-pay for my family physician.$35 for a specialist.$50 if I use the ER or a place like a URGICARE etc.

The bottom line is with more people paying as designed by the ACA it brings down the costs for everyone,even those on MEDICARE.

The Medical Industrial Complex KNOWS that if and when the ACA is fully implemented as written their gravy train IS OVER and will stop at nothing to prevent it and will spend whatever it takes
in efforts to overturn and'or convince the American people that it IS NOT in their best interests when,IN FACT.it is the best thing they can have for themselves and their family at a Very Fair price compared to the for profit entities of The Medical Industrial Complex.

My wife and I are on medicare and I see your point.
Thanks.

You're Welcome!
You are a reasonable thinking person JAP69!

Bobbya,
I looked over this health plan, and as I've stated many of times, the health parts: some are good others are great, but what really irks me is that the Health Bill is laden with Tax's and perks galore, and with the economy the way it is, IMO it would only drag it further into either recession or even Depression if it continues.
I myself have been on Medicare for about 8 mos, I don't have part "B" yet because I still have insurance with my Business. The prices are great, but I still have yet to fully explore it. I'm in excellent health, so I don't really use the insurance aspect nor the supplement part either.
In respect I don't see the health bill repealed nor do I want it repealed. The only thing I can hope is that these tax's and Perks are either rewritten or they are taken out.

The health care industry has been atrocious to say the least. It's gotten so far out of hand that they were at the point of either , So what, or tough crap to the individual. without any compassion for the elderly and Seniors.Some were getting different bills from Insurance company's (price wise) for virtually the same procedures. There has to be an end to this madness... As I said before, there are some good, and some great things in this bill and I just hope it isn't repealed.

I'ts good that you agree with most of it MADDOG as beneficial to most American citizens.
I don't agree with you though as for any of it being a tax.
The unbridled Greed of The Medical Industrial Complex is and has always been the problem for ALL Americans.
There is a need for better oversight or policing of the system though.
If it were more closely watched the massive fraud committed on both Medicaid and Medicare by unscrupulous for profit providers could be eliminated which would further drive down costs for everyone.
They were left alone to police themselves and We All See how well that has worked out.
The problem IS that the For Profit providers are only beholden to their stockholders who mostly ARE the wealthy profiting off the despair of those less fortunate than they.
They ARE the ones that have caused something like the Affordable Care Act to be born and get enacted.
If they had been fair and reasonable to their subscribers and providers alike perhaps there would have been no need for The Affordable Care Act.
MEDICARE for all NOW IS the best solution!

I do know that the greed from the Medicaid/Medicare frauds from various providers was why the ACA was enacted.
Correct, if there had been better oversight from an outside entity instead of the stockholders watchdogs this probably wouldn't make the last page of the news, but greed and power do strange things to people.
The health Care part itself isn't a tax. Don't quote me exactly, but if I remember right it was page 1573 of the draft, that I saw one of many tax's to be Implemented with this bill. The tax I saw pertained to an energy tax for those having coal services rather than Green/or other at an estimated 10% increase to be leveled against consumers for this act/ meaning all electric, heat/cooling providers would pass this on to customers also at the rate of another 10%.
To me, this happens all to often on bills that before the Senate or Congress, and half of these aren't read by either side.

Even if the profit providers were fair, something else would have taken center stage because of the rampant greed.
I also agree, that Medicare is going to be the best route to take..
Thanks for the Information just the same...

Yeah!Both sides attach riders etc. to legislation which wouldn't pass if stand alone bills.
They attached to the Transportation Bill because of lobbying by big tobacco the naming of stores that have tobacco rolling machines where people buy the tobacco loose which is taxed less than packaged
manufacturing concerns that require a manufacturing license which is all but impossible to obtain thereby putting the stores out of business and the $30 thousand dollar+ machines worthless because Big Tobacco didn't want people rolling their own cigarettes which would cost them half as much as big tobacco packaged cigarettes.
They tried to attach the new oil pipeline bill to it but failed.