[Magdalen] health care...

[Jim Guthrie]

From: Lynn Ronkainen

>from one's SS payment over the course of the next few years (a graduated 
>increase built in by the ACA)  I'm beginning to think that no one who voted on 
>this read the fine print about all the phased in stuff : (

Before any of our current Medicare recipients panic, the increase does not apply 
to current members -- a specific provision of the ACA. But for those going on in 
2016, the deduction will be considerably higher, and then drop back in 2017 --  
thanks to a Republican-inserted provision to "save" Medicare.

If you are new to Medicare in 2016 -- you will pay more; if you are high income 
in retirement, you will pay considerably more ($214,0000 in retirement income 
means you could be paying $500 a month -- anyone here in that category?).

For details of all this, see:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/16/us/politics/medicare-premiums-social-security-cost-of-living.html

Cheers,
Jim