[RetiredArmy]

My wife went for her yearly “woman” checkup today. The doctors told her that she was no longer eligible for a yearly papsmear. It is an every other year thing now for Medicare. They will not pay for it. My wife paid for it out of her pocket to get the checkup done. The lady cut it to the lowest payment possible by the doctor so that she could get it. The new Obamacare will not pay for these yearly routines now. This way, you get your disease and die so they no longer have to pay for anything for you.

[morphing libertarian]

we’re all in it for the future.

Hope she’s clear!

[originalbuckeye]

My bailiwick. Government regulations to the health insurance companies are NO Pap smears covered after age 65 unless the woman has symptoms. Trust me, if a woman has symptoms (bleeding, etc) she is already in bad shape. The reason women over age 65 survive gyn cancers is because the abnormal cells shed BEFORE THERE ARE VISIBLE SYMPTOMS. But, after age 65, a woman is no longer paying into the system so she is treated differently.