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When you reach the age of 65 you are considered a senior and by law have the right to Medicare- a health insurance program for seniors. This program is also available to people with certain disabilities. The Medicare program was designed to help with hospital bills, and some prescription drugs.

When you hear the government talk about the ObamaCare you might get confused as you thought you were covered by Medicare which is funded entirely at the federal level. The reason you should be nervous is that under this new plan "ObamaCare" they want to take over Medicare and create a social medical service for everyone. This will add 40 to 75 billion dollars per year for a ten year period. Understand that these are immigrants, illegals, and the poor that get added to the system.

In order to pay for the new plan of health care called ObamaCare there is a new law in the works that eliminates the homeowner's tax deduction on home mortgages interest. Jan. 1st there were cuts to Medicare Advantage- $140 billion in lost federal funding. This will hit Medicare recipients hard as they will notice limit provisions for dental, eye and comprehensive prescription-drug coverage that these policies provide.

Beginning in 2014, virtually all Americans will be forced to buy insurance or pay a fine because in order to pay for Obama Care, the Democrats have to get money coming in from somewhere. So what options do you have as a Medicare, recipient right now?

However you should not stop using your benefits. At Social Service Coordinators they have an advocacy program designed to assist Medicare beneficiaries with identifying and enrolling into programs for which they are eligible. Some of the more popular programs included energy, nutrition, telephone, transportation, property tax, and co payment assistance.

While Obama and Company added "16 million" to the Medicare rolls while cutting a half trillion dollars of Federal funding out of the program. Before doing this, Medicare has accumulated a mandated but unfunded debt of $37 trillion dollars. However many authorities say that the true number of folks added to the Medicare rolls is 37 million rather than 16 million.

You might want to delve into the details of this program called nationalized health that eh current administration is rushing through Congress. You might choose to ignore the media as you feel it is out of your hands, whatever your choice you might first and always take care of your health.