This may be deemed politics (and quickly closed by the moderators), but here it goes anyway.
I just got a notice from the Social Security Administration about changes to my benefits for 2020 ........................ And it's another example of the phrase "Hell Remodeled".
First, my monthly benefit payment will increase. However my benefits will be reduced to pay for Medicare Part B and also another reduction for something called the Income Related Monthly Adjustment Amount. So the end result of the increase minus the deductions will be that my monthly payment will actually be reduced by $120 from the amount in 2019.
Furthermore, I already have a comprehensive medical/dental plan from my former employer's insurance so I don't know why I should have to also pay a premium for Medicare Part B - which I probably won't be using anytime in my life.
But this really pees me off: Federal law requires that I enroll in Medicare Part B or the Social Security Administration will require my former employer to terminate my insurance plan and I will be out in the cold as far as health insurance is concerned. That insurance plan is funded entirely by the employer and the federal government makes no contribution - so it should have absolutely no authority in the matter.
Furthermore, an employer funded insurance plan is a contract between two private parties and the federal government should not have any authority to intervene and sever/nullify that contract. It also seems that the federal government mandating that an employer provided health insurance plan be terminated would violate the 14Th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution which prohibits the government from taking property without due process and just compensation. Accordingly, an employer provided heath insurance plan would be considered property and subject to the constraints of the 14Th Amendment.
(A little text mentioning a politician now in office has been removed by a moderator in the hopes that the rest of the post can remain visible.)
Nevertheless, Congress has allowed this injustice to become law without any intervention what so ever and they don't know what the hell is going on.
So there you go, a government that doesn't know what in the Hell is going on and your Average Joe citizen is getting shafted ...... Again.
I just got a notice from the Social Security Administration about changes to my benefits for 2020 ........................ And it's another example of the phrase "Hell Remodeled".
First, my monthly benefit payment will increase. However my benefits will be reduced to pay for Medicare Part B and also another reduction for something called the Income Related Monthly Adjustment Amount. So the end result of the increase minus the deductions will be that my monthly payment will actually be reduced by $120 from the amount in 2019.
Furthermore, I already have a comprehensive medical/dental plan from my former employer's insurance so I don't know why I should have to also pay a premium for Medicare Part B - which I probably won't be using anytime in my life.
But this really pees me off: Federal law requires that I enroll in Medicare Part B or the Social Security Administration will require my former employer to terminate my insurance plan and I will be out in the cold as far as health insurance is concerned. That insurance plan is funded entirely by the employer and the federal government makes no contribution - so it should have absolutely no authority in the matter.
Furthermore, an employer funded insurance plan is a contract between two private parties and the federal government should not have any authority to intervene and sever/nullify that contract. It also seems that the federal government mandating that an employer provided health insurance plan be terminated would violate the 14Th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution which prohibits the government from taking property without due process and just compensation. Accordingly, an employer provided heath insurance plan would be considered property and subject to the constraints of the 14Th Amendment.
(A little text mentioning a politician now in office has been removed by a moderator in the hopes that the rest of the post can remain visible.)
Nevertheless, Congress has allowed this injustice to become law without any intervention what so ever and they don't know what the hell is going on.
So there you go, a government that doesn't know what in the Hell is going on and your Average Joe citizen is getting shafted ...... Again.
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