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Political Factoid
The average person* pays $140,000 into medicare.
The average person receives $430,000 in benefits.**
Isn't that how it usually works?
You pay into something for many years
and expect to get back more than
you put in (compound interest).
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A voting man over the age of 55 ***
(being courted by the Republican Party.)
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Including the G.W.Bush administration's
unfunded medicare prescription coverage.
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Those under age 55 will have to pay 70% of medicare costs
under the 2012 Republican plan.
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cf.
26,
1374,
1421,
1419
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