"Just take the pill"
The time will come when they won't give you a choice - like when it's single payer controlled by them...
Posted on 04/03/2019 10:04:09 AM PDT by budj
Medicare for all sounds like a nightmare to me. I don't know if you have ever dealt with Medicare on a tough issue, but I have, and it was a disgusting and enlightening experience.
My 91-year-old mom fell and broke her back in the summer of 2017. I took her to the hospital in severe pain, and they were shooting her up with fentanyl and morphine, but they said she would have to go home. You see, if they admitted her and she was able to stay for three days, Medicare would be liable for the first twenty days in a nursing home facility and possibly liable for 80% of an additional eighty days. The doctors said a broken back and severe pain were not a good enough reason to justify admittance for Medicare. It took around twelve hours, but I was able to get her admitted, because we were "lucky" enough that she also had a urinary tract infection.
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Under medicare government controls your treatment by paying/not paying. Extend it to all, and anyone over 65 will have his/her life shortened prematurely by denied treatment while the money goes to aids care, euthanasia, abortion, and sex-”change” operations.
Ask someone in the UK how that NHS is working out.
Can’t we at least Test it out on ALL Public Employee’s in the USA first?
Incredible! All the suffering someone has to endure just to utilize their Medicare.
Even a more frightening experience for someone that old.
My wife and I have been on Medicare (using a Medicare Advantage plan) for five years. We have been treated well. We have no complaints.
Just heard Mick Jagger is coming to New York for a heart valve operation, tomorrow?
If any sort of mandatory socialized medicine scheme is imposed, there is no chance that the Obamas and Clintons will have to wait in line at the medical clinics with the rest of us.
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945)
EXACTLY. We’re talking U.K.style, “It has been determined that treating your disease will not increase your probability of a positive outcome.” With a healthy dose of “Prescribing opioids has to be curtailed; here’s some tylenol to take at home.” Outcomes based care has been sneaking up on us for a couple of decades. It is not a good thing, but is medical doublespeak thought up by bean counters.
Same here. Had major heart surgery last year. Can't think of how it could have gone better.
No complaint at all.
One thing these Marxist Democrat candidates have in common with Trump: They all want to “Repeal and Replace” ObamaCare.
You should read the horror stories of people who went to NHS hospitals for treatment and basically were killed by ineptitude.
Those who kill the most innocent unborn citizens of our country should NEVER be allowed to make laws for the living, only for the dead, and should be arrested for tampering with our Healthcare system with sabotage.
Congress would be a good start.
Fewer and fewer doctors are accepting new Medicare patients.
"Just take the pill"
The time will come when they won't give you a choice - like when it's single payer controlled by them...
rexthecat wrote: “My wife and I have been on Medicare (using a Medicare Advantage plan) for five years. We have been treated well. We have no complaints.”
Same with my wife and I. Great care. No complaints.
Thanks budj.
I think Congress, their families and staff should be on it for 2 years before public employees. Although, it might help Republicans when the public employees go on strike against the Democrats....
My wife and I have been on Medicare (using a Medicare Advantage plan) for five years. We have been treated well. We have no complaints.
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Watched a 75-year-old woman over the last 2 years on a Medicare Advantage with the local hospital conglomerate (affiliated with Mayo, as well.) The Plan advertises that it always covers, has a zillion MDs as PPs, etc, etc.
Patient has a calcified heart valve and needs a replacement. Backstory it it’s iatrogenic, caused by the steroids prescribed for over a decade because she felt tired and had various complaints (most stemming from overwork/a diagnosis of polymyalgia rheumatica.) Tests upon tests and then no tests because they could only be done at Mayo in Rochester, so declined. Then agonizing delays as the method of treatment was analyzed. Again: only local tests accepted. Least invasive surgery deemed too experimental. Artificial valve? Human valve? Animal valve? Insert thru groin? Place inside stiffened valve? Full chest opening with brand new replacement valve? On and on as the patient’s health declined and she went from working full time as a house cleaner to barely able to walk around a ranch house.
Finally: an approval and they may be able to snake up her artery from the groin. Two full years and there were costs every month.
That’s an example of a Medicare Advantage from a renowned hospital complex allied with a legendary hospital complex.
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