Blue Cross Blue Shield.. Medicare Premiums.. Send this information to all seniors

[Leanne King]

Message from Blue Cross Blue Shield/Be informed/Pass it on is a must!!
A message from Blue Cross Blue Shield
Professor Emeritus John W. Hill, JD, PhD
Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
[e-mail]
MEDICARE
Look clearly at the 2014 rate compared to the 2013 rate.

For those of you who are on Medicare, read the following. It's short, but
important and you probably haven't heard about it in the Mainstream News:

"The per person Medicare Insurance Premium will increase from the present
Monthly Fee of $96.40, rising to:

$104.20 in 2012

$120.20 in 2013

And

$247.00 in 2014."
These are Provisions incorporated in the Obamacare Legislation, purposely delayed so as not to confuse the 2012 Re-Election Campaigns.

Send this to all Seniors that you know, so they will know who's throwing them under the
bus.

Peggy Riehle
Internal Representative
Network Contracting
205-220-6778

[amanda choate]

It doesn't matter Jay, you won't be able to afford it anyway.

[amanda choate]

Jay, under the Ryan Budget they will allow you to go into the market and buy your plan. But in the meantime we are going to ask you to pay for a system that pays out $ 400,000 more per participant than they have paid in. Thanks and good luck with that. I am in the boat with you.

[amanda choate]

I will gladly pay three hundred a month make it five to have Medcare with the BCBS coverage on top. Beats everything in the market. Single payor.

[tamara stephenson]

This is pure fiction. 

This was on the Boston Globe website.  I didn't reprint the whole article, but this columnist contacted Medicare -------  And when we contacted Medicare's Office of the Actuary, we were given these projections -- the most recent available -- which are current as of the president's budget for fiscal year 2012 issued in mid-February:

Medicare Part B Standard Premium (projected, February 2011)
2012 $108.20
2013 $112.10
2014 $117.10
Source: Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services

[amanda choate]

$247.00 a month, sign me up.

[Leanne King]

I never believe snopes anymore. this came out of BCBS so for now I tend to believe it is true.