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How is one's wife added on work health insurance without a social security card?

Aug 09, 2006 by just_married | Posted in Other - General Health Care

Q: My mate entered the USA with a fiance' visa and we just got married within the 90 days provision however my work health insurance is not allowing me to add her since she does not have a social security number yet (it is in the process but will take months)!

A: Call the insurance companionship. But you'll most likely have to wait until she gets her number!

social security income and paying health insurance premium?

Jul 22, 2008 by Siu B | Posted in United States

Q: My dam is receiving her social security early at 60 years old under widowed category. But is not getting medicare yet. So she is restricted for the low income health benefits. While being placed on the waiting list, she is purchasing the health plan at $302 a month. Can she insist on this as a deductible when filing for taxes? Does she have to meet the 7.5% rule for medical expenses?

A: Yes, she can application the premiums, but yes she'd have to meet the 7.5% of income rule. If ss is her only income, she doesn't owe any tax, so there would be no tactic in itemizing.

Is health insurance mess the Government's way of handling Social Security deficits?

Dec 26, 2007 by G. W. | Posted in Government

Q: If less people have access to proper, affordable health care, they will die sooner and not need social security as they age. The way health insurance is currently structured guarantees that, as heretofore goes on, fewer of us will be able to afford it, and therefore, go without. How can we fix this mess?

A: That is a very cynical way of looking at things! As for the way to clarify it, my view is a national health system would be best, but one allowing people to still have private health care if they so select.

I live in the UK and work in the NHS (our universal health care system). It has problems, but not as many as the US healthcare system has. Teeth of spending much more per head of population than other developed countries, the US has worse health outcomes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_take charge of #Economics Life expectancy and infant mortality figures in the US are worse than in other developed countries, consideration more money being spent (and wasted) in the USA.

In the UK there are waiting lists for routine problems. Problems that can not bide one's time are treated as emergencies. Also, in the UK, people can also have private health care.

I can understand Americans being proud of living in the richest and most energetic country in the world. What I can not understand is why Amercians settle for an expensive healthcare system where babies die that would have a better unintentional of life if born in another developed country.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2 167865,00.html

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No COLA boost for Social Security checks for first time since '75 ...

by Stephen Ohlemacher

No Public Security COLA could dig $250 payments

WASHINGTON — Collective Security recipients won’t get a charge-of-living extension next year for the first age in more than a third of a century, and that could hike President Barack Obama’s envisage to send seniors another mellifluous of $250 payments before the congressional elections.

Egalitarian leaders in Congress have signed onto the design, greatly improving its chances, even as some budget hawks say the payments are unrestrained and could add to the federal budget deficiency. Republican leaders said they, too, favor the payments but don’t lack to snowball the default to pay for them.

More than 50 million Societal Security recipients will see no distend in their monthly payments next year, the administration said Thursday, the first year without an develop since unavoidable adjustments were adopted in 1975.

Condemnation it on falling consumer prices. By law, expense-of-living adjustments are pegged to inflation, which is neutralizing this year because of abase verve costs. Venereal Security payments do not go down, even when prices fall-off.

Societal Security recipients at a higher- ranking center in Pembroke Pines, Fla., a suburb of Fort Lauderdale, took it in stride that sign in January they won’t see an enhancement in their benefits.

“At my age, I’ve got a hairy bedroom, I have clothes, I have anything I stand in want, I got a walker, what else do I insufficiency?” said Marie Arrasate, 83, who ran a restaurant and bon-bons research with her partner in Washingtonville, N.Y., and now lives with her daughter in Pembroke Pines.

“You have to pay for do with whatever you get. What are you gonna do? You can’t do nothing about it,” said Ed Nunez, 69, a retired traffic driver from Miami.

The Chalk-white Household said the stimulus payments would tariff $13 billion, though a congressional gauge put the rate at $14 billion. Obama didn’t say how the payments should be financed, leaving that up to Congress. The president is initiate to borrowing the in clover, increasing the federal loss, right-minded as Congress did with the first circular of stimulus payments.

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