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Valerie Grimes, Hypnotist's avatar

I will be interested to see how my Trump hating Facebook friends twist this to make it something bad.

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V. N. Alexander's avatar

My thoughts exactly.

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MaryAnn Markowitz's avatar

I am making life easy and deleting all FB accounts. Business was easy, they don't make deleting our personal accounts easy.

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Rainbow's avatar

TDS syndrome does not allow you to see the truth..

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Rainbow's avatar

Like the medical industrial complex and the Pharmacaomafia they want to keep you a customer for life?

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Beverly Johnson's avatar

TDS now complicated with the variant EMDS is on full display. The only reason I still lurk on fakebook is to see how badly my friends, family and neighbors are impaired with this ongoing crisis. smh

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Jennifer Galardi's avatar

I'm about to find out. Posting it on FB now. ;)

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VictorDianne Watson's avatar

My husband and I just received notification that our health insurance premium through United Health Care is again being raised. It was raised last June(2024) to $319.22/ month each and will be raised to $351.18 this June. That means we will be paying over $700/ month for our supplemental health insurance policy. I wish there was someone who could advise us what to do. We are in our 80s and we chose what we thought was the best policy based on an “agent’s” recommendation. This does not cover our monthly Medicare part B charges taken out of our social security or our Medicare part D for prescriptions. Nor do we have hearing aid or glasses coverage. Something must be done to curb these terrible costs. I feel like we are being robbed blind. I will see if this makes any difference.

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Jennifer Galardi's avatar

I feel for you both. My mother is going through something similar. We must restore the doctor patient relationship and stop subsidizing everyone’s poor health choices so we can assist those who really need care … our more elderly community. I am happy to have some of my tax dollars go to help those who really need medical assistance. I am NOT happy to have my taxes go towards subsidizing people’s poor habits. Okay I’ve said my peace.

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VictorDianne Watson's avatar

Thanks, Jennifer. When GM went bankrupt, salaried employees lost all their benefits, including healthcare. So, no one is paying for our supplemental. This comes out of our pension and social security. Fortunately, we planned for retirement, but this hurts. There has to be a better way than the system our country is operating under. Let’s hope so, at least for future retirees.

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Rainbow's avatar

Elder, not "elderly". No baby boomer original hippie wants to be referred to as "elderly". after all, we did all the heavy lifting so you younger generations could enjoy the freedoms we didn't have.

Not to mention, we brought you the Beatles! And besides 70 is the new 50!! 😎✌️🎸🎸🎸🥁

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Rainbow's avatar

My AdVice… Get out of United Healthcare!

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VictorDianne Watson's avatar

Good advice, but where to go? Are any of them any better? I doubt it! Hopefully, now that the conversation has begun, perhaps we’ll see improvements.

Btw! While you hippies were off to Woodstock, we were having our babies and developing our careers to keep the engine going. We were the war babies who didn’t meet our fathers until we were 3 or 4 years old. Not boomers!

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Rainbow's avatar

Meanwhile America is the only country in the developed world that does not have universal healthcare. The ONLY ONE.

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Sergio Alvarez's avatar

Very happy knowing our President Trump is aware of all these price variants in hospitals, doctors, clinics, drugs!! I understand specialist like “orthopedic & heart specialist, laboratory services..will vary and aren’t readily available in parts of our country?? We need to start organizing with more transparency and updated information! Also we need transparency in our research labs, especially government-funded? I’m not an expert, but I see what’s happening with health in America? Not good? One thing is sure, we have new people!!

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Mo Leish's avatar

I’m not sure how this actually helps. Before this I could ask providers how much things cost. And now I still can.

And if I have to go to the hospital in an emergency the price is what the price is. Please someone explain to me why this matters. I’m a huge Kennedy fan so I want to be excited about anything he does but I don’t understand the importance of this. Genuinely need help getting clarity on it.

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PraiseRose's avatar

I’m sure there will be a print out of the different costs. Our gives staff one with 3 choices and you decide.

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Noël King's avatar

Wow, what a positive move!

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