Medicare Explained

[Sundance3]

A woman asked King George how his Medicare plan would help...here is the college graduate's response:

Because the — all which is on the table begins to address the big cost drivers. For example, how benefits are calculate, for example, is on the table; whether or not benefits rise based upon wage increases or price increases. There's a series of parts of the formula that are being considered. And when you couple that, those different cost drivers, affecting those — changing those with personal accounts, the idea is to get what has been promised more likely to be — or closer delivered to what has been promised

Does that make any sense to you? It's kind of muddled. Look, there's a series of things that cause the — like, for example, benefits are calculated based upon the increase of wages, as opposed to the increase of prices. Some have suggested that we calculate — the benefits will rise based upon inflation, as opposed to wage increases. There is a reform that would help solve the red if that were put into effect. In other words, how fast benefits grow, how fast the promised benefits grow, if those — if that growth is affected, it will help on the red.

It is from the White house transcript. And this guy is in charge? God help us get through the next 2 1/2 years without WW3 starting.

[yergi]

The man is definately inarticulate... I don't think that makes him stupid though.
I know, we probably disagree on that point, heh heh.

[Sundance3]

I do not think that he meets the "clinical" definition of stupid, but he sure does not have "presidential" intelligence. I mean gee whiz, is it too much to ask that the President be able to communicate verbally? Sometimes he sounds like Dustin Hoffman in "Rainman".

[Brooksville]

Universal coverage and the insurance industry - Do the Democrats expect to prohibit insurers from denying coverage or charging much higher premiums to people with medical problems or just raise taxes to help pay the cost, which is estimated at $90 billion to $120 billion a year.