Even if you qualify for Medicare because of age, have paid Medicare taxes all your working life, and in other ways done everything right, you will still get charged about $150/month (or more, depending on your current income) as your Medicare premium. That’s for traditional Medicare. Any sort of “Medicare advantage” program you’re on can charge you premiums per month that significantly exceed what traditional Medicare charges.

The ones who didn’t pay into Social Security can get it if they pay some money after the fact. Same for getting Medicare; you may have to pay for it or part of it if you didn’t qualify for it by paying into the system.

No, not everyone who pulls from the Social Security fund pays into it, even today. It was set up to pay out retirement funds to people who never paid into it. That’s why you had people who were from the 19th century (and retired) who got retirement but never paid into it.

Irrefutable logic SadState! Oddly I just heard that the few Indies left standing are trying to start an “Independent Church of Scamology” and per what I read, they REALLY believe that by doing that will make the “tek” work (for the first time). Wild stuff.

Hi HellOSA, I saw your post with OSD hi infinity surfer! and I wanted to send you love and hope and joy that those you love may wake up from the cult.I have read your posts since last year and I admire you.xo Ann.

I believe that is “Standard Tech” … Yup

OSD I’d pay real money to see some astral beach blanket bunnies….(I’ll get my hat…)

80% 1 star ratings on amazon.com:t”these guys are crooks”or The CAD/CAM version of Obamacare”
“Felons, Cons, and more Cons”on glassdoor.(company reviews)
Even worse than the ratings from John Mappin’s Hotel hell on TripAdvisor.
If it is not a scam it is not Scientology.

Yes. Very well said

Great analogy Espiando