Democrats want everyone else to pay for the health care

Medicare does ration care or why would the AARP want more Americans to HAVE to purchase private healthcare insurance?

I am not sure how advertisements of private health insurance, supported by AARP, translates into "Medicare does ration care".

Does the fact that insurance companies advertise to Medicare recipients mean that those people NEED to purchase private insurance?

Many seniors can afford to, and do, purchase additional insurance. Many others cannot afford this additional insurance and do not purchase it. I find more people who have additional pharmacy coverage since the introduction of the "donut hole" by legislators a few years back.

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Then again Health care reform will save us all 100 Billion over 10 years.....

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I do know that private insurance companies ration care...that is part of the way they insure profits. I don't know that medicare rations care and did not suggest that it does.

I certainly am under no illusion that all retired folks who are eligible for medicare are poor. That some medicare recipients also choose to purchase private insurance is not an indictment against medicare...although apparently some might interpret it in that fashion. Most folks that I know and come into contact with have medicare only...and they are, for the most part, satisfied with their insurance.

And yes, it IS my contention that there are many people who cannot afford to pay insurance premiums in our current system. They end up with really, really bad coverage, with high copays, for a big premium...then when they get sick or need the insurance they are too frequently denied or dropped. Naturally, I don't necessarily expect someone to understand if they have never had to seek insurance coverage outside the safety of a large employer group.