How Does Health Care Reform Affect Senior Citizens?
Quite rightly, a great deal of our senior citizens are going to be worried about what the effects of the new health care reform bill are. It’s true that seniors often use the health care system a lot more often than most young people do, and so they probably have a bigger interest than most. The frightening thing is, for any senior citizen with a fixed income, there is going to be little room for maneuver in their budgets should the cost of health care rise. So is the new health care reform bill brought about by Barack Obama going to have any direct affects on senior citizens? The answer is “yes”. However, there are also a lot of complications to this answer, and whether the new affects are good or bad for you will depend much on your individual circumstances. Let’s take a look at some of the specifics concerning older citizens: Cuts in Medicare One of the biggest changes that we’ll see is that under the new bill, the federal governments regular payments to the Medicare Advantage progr
