"I'm not ruling things in, I'm not ruling things out, but my preference would be to consider GST issues rather than Medicare levy issues," Abbott said after the Council of Australian Governments (Coag) meeting in Sydney on Thursday.
The entire Obama campaign, I suspect, is going to be summed up by this sentence: "Mitt Romney/Rick Perry/Candidate TK would rather cut Medicare to the bone than close a single tax loophole for the rich".
Until five years ago, all low income seniors paid Medicaid rather than Medicare prices.
The Republicans may have to vote against this popular tax, and then have to explain why they'd rather cut Medicare and Social Security instead.
Would you rather have Medicare, where you sign up and they pay the bills, or a complex scheme, very much like the troubled Obamacare "exchanges," in which you're always scrambling to avoid being gouged, always worrying that the plan you signed up for won't cover the drugs or operation you need or even be there next year?
The database includes some people aged 65 years and over covered primarily through employer-based plans rather than Medicare.
In our analysis of South Carolina ED use patterns, convenience as a motivating factor appears to be much stronger for patients with private sources of payment, rather than Medicare or Medicaid patients (Table 2).
Medicare is the federally-funded health insurance scheme for all Australian citizens and Australian permanent residents; however, in the event a person sustains a work or transport related injury or illness, organisations such as WSV and TAC cover the costs associated with the injury rather than Medicare.
We also found that obese and overweight patients made up most (68%) of those covered by private insurance rather than Medicare or Medicaid, which are state or federal programs in the United States that provide insurance for the elderly or patients with low income or significant chronic health conditions.
Rather than undermining Medicare, this bill strengthens Medicare.
