Obamacare Demystified: Medicare: Monday October 1, 12-1 p.m.

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Medicare reform has become a central issue in the presidential campaign with both candidates vying for the senior vote. The Romney team accuses President Obama of gutting Medicare to pay for Obamacare while the President says he’s strengthening the program. The future of Medicare, and the facts about how the Affordable Health Care Act will change it, with Jonathan Weiner and Brad Herring, professors in health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.


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Please address the disabled

Submitted by Anonymous on October 1, 2012 - 12:49pm.

Please address the disabled who are under age 55 and use Medicare. Our costs often are at high rates, but yet you rarely here the disabled, who have paid into SSDI mentioned. How does the Romney plan handle us.

Example one treatment is $3500.oo every 8 weeks. This treatment lasts for the duration of my life, Who can afford that?

 

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