Medicare

Healthcare Reform and Closing The Medicare Doughnut Hole

Capitol Hill News Conference on HealthCare Reform and Medicare September 30, 2009

Nancy Pelosi: Medicare is our solemn pledge, a pledge of stability for our seniors. They paid into the system and we want them to get everything they deserve out of it. What we are promising with our new legislation is the following: better benefits, [...]

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SSI or SSDI?

Hi, this is Don Jorgensen again with MySocialSecurityAttorney.com and this… today’s topic is going to be Social Security Disability Benefits, SSDI vs. SSI, what’s best for me?
Now, in order to understand Social Security, or SSI vs. SSDI, let me take a step back. Social Security, everyone knows or most people know about Social Security [...]

Medicare, Social Security Disability, Supplemental Security Income

Obama’s Blueprint for Change on Social Security and Medicare

Barack Obama: “We can extend the promise of Social Security without shifting the burden on seniors. I think that’s why the best way forward is to first look to adjust the cap on the payroll tax, so that people like me, because I am earning more than $102,000, pay a little bit more and people [...]

Medicare, Save Social Security

Reform Medicare And Social Security To Keep Our Promise To Seniors – Senator John Cornyn

Senator John Cornyn: “While we know we’ve been spending in Congress at an unprecedented pace and have a deficit of $1.8 trillion, as bad as that is, that’s not the whole story. What we’ve heard from the trustees of Medicare and Social Security is that Medicare will basically be out of cash by year 2017 [...]

Medicare, Save Social Security

Barbara Kennelly on Social Security and Medicare Trustees Report

News Anchor: Joining us now with her reaction is Barbara Kennelly, the President and CEO of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare. She is a former Congresswoman from Connecticut who is a ranking member of the Social Security sub-committee and a former counselor to the Social Security Administration.
Miss Kennelly, welcome to Bloomberg [...]

Medicare, Retirement Planning, Save Social Security

Do you worry about your Social Security and Medicare?

TV Interviewer: Are you worried about your Social Security and Medicare?
Man1: Not particularly, because the risk of insolvency may seem a bit closer today than yesterday, but I have faith that the government can enact reforms to force through all that.
Woman 1: Absolutely.
TV Interviewer: How so?
Lady1: I don’t think it’s going to be there by [...]

Medicare, Retirement Planning, Save Social Security

Geithner Reacts to Social Security and Medicare Crisis

Timothy Geithner: “The Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees met this afternoon to complete their annual financial review of the programs and to transmit their Reports to Congress. I welcome my fellow Trustees. I also want to acknowledge the hard work and dedication of the chief actuaries, Stephen Goss and Richard Foster.
For generations, [...]

Medicare, Save Social Security, Social Security

Real Estate Investors Pay No Social Security and Medicare Taxes?

“Now, what about Social Security and Medicare taxes? Well, my friends, we don’t pay those either, ever. Why? Because those are ignorance taxes. You see, what do I mean by ignorance taxes? You have to pay to be ignorant enough to have a job to pay earned or to pay ignorance taxes. Social Security and [...]

Medicare, Social Security Tax

Can you get help paying your Medicare premiums?

Interviewer: When to switch to Medicare? Is it true that if you have low income, you can get help paying your Medicare premiums?
Ken Hess: This one is more important to a broad range or larger numbers of clients than most people realize, because it’s not that you have to be eligible for SSI to just [...]

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Signing Up For Medicare Drug Coverage

Interviewer: When can I sign up for my Medicare drug coverage?
Ken Hess: Well, for Medicare drug coverage, if you get to be age 65 or if you’re disabled and you’re offered Medicare after being on benefits for two years, you can apply for your prescription drug coverage also.
Now, we ask that people contact us [...]

Medicare