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Originally Posted by Rubber Bucket
I received a rebate check of $720 or the equivalent of 13% of what I paid in annual health insurance premiums. The rebate was sent to the person who paid the costs of the premiums. I know of, at least, 20 people who received rebate checks that ranged from $7.50 to $1300.00 - depending on how much they paid for their health insurance and what percentage their health insurance company paid for benefits and health improvement services.
If you are interested, Ezra Klein had an excellent column of Medicare in today's Washington Post. Both the ACA and the "Ryan budget" project $500 billion reduction in Medicare. Also both project a growth rate of Medicare of GDP +0.5%.
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i'd love to read the article - do you have the link? i'd appreciate it. and thanks for the info about the rebates - factcheck did indicate that some rebates would go to insureds but most would go to employers - my bad!
found it:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...-hard-to-find/
by the end of the article i was leaning to the romney/ryan philosophy/plan - and was then convinced of it after i read wpReader15's summary in comments section; perhaps because i have been a part of the sub-bureaucracy that has to straighten out and make practical all of the regulation that the bureaucracy enacts and boasts about without really understanding the impact of their regulations and the expectations they create that aren't really there!