No Social Security increase in 2016 at substantial cost to most older adults
http://justcareusa.org/no-social-security-increase-in-2016-at-substantial-cost-to-most-older-adults/However, people who are just joining Medicare, have an income-adjusted Medicare premium, or have Medicare and Medicaid, can face premium increases. And, because the law requires Medicare Part B premiums to cover 25 percent of program costs, the 30 percent of people with Medicare for whom premiums can rise will have monthly premiums of at least $159.30, up from premiums as low as $104.90. Couples with incomes of more than $428,000 will have monthly premiums of $509.80.
Less disposable income for non-health-related expenses for most people receiving Social Security benefits: Because health care costs are rising faster than non-medical costs, people with Medicare who rely on Social Security for some or all of their income, receive lower net Social Security benefits after health care expenses each year. (People with Medicare spend an average of $5,000 on health care costs Medicare does not pay for.) Also, Medicare premiums have been rising more than twice as fast as the Social Security benefit, even with the cost-of-living adjustment. As a result, each year, people with Medicare have less disposable income for non-health-related expenses.
Every year but two for the last 40 years, people have seen a cost-of-living increase in their Social Security checks, an inflation adjustment. But, they will see no increase at all in their Social Security benefit in 2016. To make matters worse, a new report from the Center for Retirement Research, reveals that, unless there is a work-around, some people with Medicare will see almost a 50 percent increase in their Medicare Part B monthly premium. And, most people with Medicare will have less disposable income for non-health care related expenses.
Significant Medicare premium increase for about 15 million people: About three in ten people with Medicare will have to absorb the full 25 percent of Medicare Part B program costs in their premiums that the other 70 percent of people with Medicare will be exempt from paying. Under the law, Medicare premiums cannot increase for most older adults and people with disabilities if their Social Security benefits do not also increase.
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my entire working life and I am getting ready shortly to get medicare (65), and it will not cover my heart issues entirely, which are pretty bad, and, from which I was told would lower my health costs going on Medicare, and when I get to the age to collect social security ----------it will in some aspects, but in today's reality of greed----------nope, and a republican Congress and DINO'S they just don't care all they want is power.
I have seen the republicans with help from DINO's instead of it being a 90/10 medicare program under Reagan having it move to a 80/20 to a 70/30 program just like in some business around this country.
And now the retiring of many millions off of us and those still the the proverbial pipeline of employment----------we, are again, being MEANS TESTED-------------I want to know why
Why are those making over $118,500.01 not paying into the systems.
I know why, it was and always has been about greed, and when a program was specifically set up for the elderly to help and them / us have a program, and have it being cut / gut out of the collective to try and privatize it all to a over all market, and prevent it to help drive down those costs, and then getting tweaked to change it into a for-profit entity, without those adjustments like COLA --------------------that is wrong.
We use to get COLA increases in pay to offset inflation from 1975 forward, even with the ups or downs in market costs, but they were there to offset the prices for the poor and the retiree (because of social security a fixed income), not now-----it's fend for yourself, they (corporation /oligarchy) got what they wanted----------------that was the bottom line your service is now a hindrance
going to pay for it ...did ya?
Oh hey ...didn't some Dems vote for that war too?
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Whomever that candidate is, they have a chance to OWN the primary AND the general election.
We all know that senior citizens come out in numbers and most of us are hurting.
So, who wants to win the election?
Who is best tempered to reach out and connect with this demographic and be credible about it?
---Discuss.
the media hardly ever mentions us. 
Many PWDs are eligible for both Medicaid and Medicare ("medi-medi" or "dual eligible"
. And many others get Social Security if they became disabled after working for a number of years.
