Posted on 04/11/2008 12:05:40 PM PDT by mukraker
If I told you how you could save $122,000, would you be interested?
Your government-run health care system, under the Medicare program, is willing to spend $126,000 to care for a patient in a nursing home for six weeks while she receives infusion therapy for treatment of bacterial endocarditis. Yet this same government-run health care system will not pay the $4,000 medical bill if this same patient chooses to stay in her home and undergo the same medical procedure at home.
That’s right. Medicare will pay $126,000 for her to go into a nursing home for the treatment, but will not pay $4,000 to keep her at home and receive the same treatment.
It’s your money. And in this case, there is something you can do about it.
Representative Elliot Engel (D-NY) has introduced H.R.2567, the Medicare Home Infusion Therapy Coverage Act of 2007, which will amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the coverage of home infusion therapy under the Medicare Program. This bill currently has 43 co-sponsors.
The Senate version of this legislation is S.870, introduced by Senator Johnny Isakson (R-GA). To date, no other Senators have signed on as co-sponsors.
This bill is a straightforward proposal, without all the little “extras” that seem to attach themselves to so much legislation in Washington. It’s barely 2 pages long.
If you’d like to save yourself $122,000 per patient, do what I did this morning. Contact your Congressman and Senators and tell them to support this legislation.
It’s your money.
And when medicine is completely socialized by Obama ir the Clintons the patient will have only oneoption if she is over 65. and the cost will be the cost of the funeral.
Unless you escape the “Sand Men” and seek “Sanctuary.”
Not to mention the fact that the person will heal more quickly in familiar surroundings. AND the increased risk of acquiring an infection in an institution which will cost more in money and suffering.
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