Medicare to pay for $93,000 prostate cancer drug

[srkruzich]

I'd rather they gave the money to my family rather than a bunch of rich hospitals and doctors.
There is no guarantee of living 4 more months and I 'd rather just let go then live in misery
witch i don't believe would be good for me or my family.
It's just doctors and pharmacuticles attempting to play god for big bucks.

Yeah i would too.  Personally i would rather spend the last days having as much fun as i could!  Skydiving, bunjee jumpin things like that

[mtcookson]

why should I be paying in to SS if when I will be old enough for it, there won't be any money there??

There already isn't enough money there. SS needs to be gone as well as Medicare. Its yet another inefficient, completely abused, unconstitutional power that the government should have never had.

The ONLY thing the government should be spending money on is what it needs to run (including the military). It has absolutely no business and is not allowed to redistribute money. That is why we are suffering.

Our debt is staggering... but what's even scarier and beyond staggering is our unfunded liabilities. That amount is over 113 TRILLION. SS and Medicare are part of this number. The liability per taxpayer is $1,019,076 or approximately $364,000 per person and it is continually going up even second. In the time it has taken me to type this it has gone up by millions of dollars.

Our framers were not idiots. They setup our government the way they did for a reason. The abuse of the framers original intent is the exact reason we are where we are today. What the socialists/progressives/liberals of ANY party want is proven by history to NEVER work. Never. It can not work. Never will work. It will only end badly. Every time. End of story.

[Teresa]

Obamacare Paid Out $2 Billion to Corporations...

A little-known provision in the Obamacare legislation has sent $2 billion to corporations, unions and state public employee systems to subsidize health coverage for retirees.

At the current rate, the government could blow through the entire $5 billion budgeted for the program before it is set to end, Byron York of The Washington Examiner reported.

The discovery by investigators for the House Energy and Commerce Committee was made just before a hearing to focus on Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services.

The CCIO oversees the Early Retiree Reinsurance Program, which was set up to subsidize insurance for workers who retired before they were eligible for Medicare, the paper said.

The early retirees often have trouble getting health insurance, an HHS report said, because of age or chronic conditions, and the program was set up to bridge the gap between retirement and the creation of health-care exchanges provided for in Obamacare come into being in 2014.

The biggest chunk of the money paid out so far has gone to the United Auto Workers, which received over $206 million. AT&T collected $140 million, Verizon $91 million, General Electric $36 million, and General Motors $19 million, the paper said.

State governments have also collected large sums with the Public Employees Retirement System of Ohio receiving $70 million and the Teacher Retirement System of Texas $68 million.

sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh~~~~

[Ross]

Yeah i would too.  Personally i would rather spend the last days having as much fun as i could!  Skydiving, bunjee jumpin things like that

I like your thinking. I say enjoy life and go when the time comes.