How will the abolishment of Medicare affect your RVing?
Medicare is famous for putting almost all of its budget into actual healthcare, with administrative costs just a tiny fraction of private insurance companies' costs.
Now that it is going to be privatised, and costs passed onto consumers, people over 65 can plan on paying double or triple what younger people pay for Obamacare. (Trump now says he will preserve Obamacare.)
How will this affect your budget? Will you be able to keep RVing? Will this change the RVing lifestyle nationwide?
I wonder if RVing will become something only younger people with mobile jobs can afford to do, and retirees will be priced out of the market. I would not like to see that.
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Edited to add:
This thread has become rancorous, with people making a lot of accusations and extremist political claims and name-calling. I don't want that.
Just to clarify (and calm people down), we are not talking about campaign promises and tv news.
The Republican platform for 2016 says they will privatize Medicare, pass the increased costs onto seniors, and raise the Medicare age. I do not have a crystal ball. I do not know whether the new Congress will keep this pledge. But a wise person would plan for the possibility that Republicans will do what they believe their voters voted for. So, what are you planning?
I would like this thread to stick to how this affects RVing -- the industry, the RV community, and individual people here. As I have said repeatedly.
Now that it is going to be privatised, and costs passed onto consumers, people over 65 can plan on paying double or triple what younger people pay for Obamacare. (Trump now says he will preserve Obamacare.)
How will this affect your budget? Will you be able to keep RVing? Will this change the RVing lifestyle nationwide?
I wonder if RVing will become something only younger people with mobile jobs can afford to do, and retirees will be priced out of the market. I would not like to see that.
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Edited to add:
This thread has become rancorous, with people making a lot of accusations and extremist political claims and name-calling. I don't want that.
Just to clarify (and calm people down), we are not talking about campaign promises and tv news.
The Republican platform for 2016 says they will privatize Medicare, pass the increased costs onto seniors, and raise the Medicare age. I do not have a crystal ball. I do not know whether the new Congress will keep this pledge. But a wise person would plan for the possibility that Republicans will do what they believe their voters voted for. So, what are you planning?
I would like this thread to stick to how this affects RVing -- the industry, the RV community, and individual people here. As I have said repeatedly.
