"Give me Medicare - and they are older and sicker and use medical standards. Go figure."
The Reply and Reply With Quote aren't working atm but I thought I would chime in here based on the above. First, most everyone under retirement age resent the people who receive Medicare and Social Security mostly based on the administration's insistance on calling them "entitlement programs" which is a big fat pile of steaming horse hockey. I worked every day, every month and every year for 53 years and made mandatory contributions to both programs from my paycheck so I earned both!
With the pitiful monthly check I receive monthly for my "entitlement" I pay for Medicare Part A, Medicare Part B, Medicare Part D (drugs) and an outside insurance to cover what MC won't pay. The drug coverage is ridiculous. The formulary changes constantly and what one paid $7 bucks for one month will be reclassifiede next month and will cost $150.
Because of the atrocious plan known as Obamacare which has reduced payments to doctors and hospitals, my long-term doc quit his practice to become a "hospitalist" (regular paycheck, no call, 9 to 5 everyday). I found a second doc I liked OK and after 4 visits he fired me because I wouldn't take all the "wellness" tests now required. So I now have a 3rd doc who takes a few MC patients on occasion whose general attitude would make Boddy McFerren want to serenade him personally with Don't Worry Be Happy meaning that he is overly laid back and not too interested in his patients.
When you reach my age (75) if you have the ultimate misfortune to develop things like cancer, kidney disease or any other really serious health problems you have no expectation of serious treatment because treatment for those things are considered a waste of time and money which is better spent on the "young". You will be given palleative treatment until you die at which time the hospital will put you on a Viking ship, set fire to it, launch it into the ocean and remind your friends, family and other loved ones what a good and and fulfilling life you lived. [/rant]
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