Sounds like they took a lesson from Humana in FL on how to save money. A Humana primary care Dr. told my dad that he could not have a flu shot because he had not had his spleen removed.
As the illegal invaders pouring over the borders become eligible for health care ahead of US citizens we will find ourselves traveling to Mexico and Costa Rica for advanced medical care that we are no longer “eligible” for in our country of birth.
This law has to be repealed or we are done as the nation founded in 1776. I don’t see the pubbies doing anything about it even if they win both houses of Congress next year because they are just the other branch of the Party of Big Government.
Anyone have the jpg of obozo standing in front of a furnace saying “trust me it’s an MRI”?
Gets rid of that pesky inheritance for those not rich enough to have to pay the inheritance tax.
The last thing this regime wants are the unwashed masses owning their own property. They're looking to get back to the good old days of a gentrified privileged class and the serfs, who live to serve them.
Mark
I’ve been involved with both Medicaid and Medicare.
I don’t see how either is sustainable. Medicare is a huge generational transfer of wealth from young to old, from worker to non-worker. We all owe responsibility to our older generation, but the way we are doing it now is a massive, inefficient system that will cost ever more.
Medicaid will slowly turn toward Venezuela-style health care. Fewer and fewer doctors treating poor and often uneducated people. Treatment will be by rote, often done only with an eye to reimbursements on people often not smart enough or responsible enough to know better. Of course, it also caught in a government sponsored cycle of every higher costs and inefficiency.
And the Medicare law clearly permits this. Do a search on "Advanced Beneficiary Notice" if you don't believe me.
Since Medicare beneficiaries are massively subsidized by deductions from my paycheck, I wouldn't want it any other way.
Did you know your “President” ordered that US flags be flown at half-staff to honor the African Communist terrorist? And he is not even an American; but then, neither is Barack Al-Obama.
When peoples’ parents and children start dropping like flies because of lack of proper medical care, that they know exists, because of ZeroCare’s medieval rules, there will be hell to pay.............
Obamacare hasn’t really kicked in yet.
Looks like the real problem for the writer is the doctor, who is clearly horrible and they should NOT go back to him.
I have no doubt that doctors are already pressured and will be more pressured to deny tests to the patients, but what the author and her Mother went through should not be happening at this point — maybe later. :(
We had to fight to keep her in the hospital. She was there a week, but only started getting really bad on Tuesday.
The doctor said there used to be 12 criteria he could use to over-ride the insurance companies on discharging a patient. After Obama care, there's only one - Is the pain manageable?
Mom was on a morphine IV, and if sent to a nursing home she would have probably had to get the morphine either orally or in a suppository. (Administered by minimum wage folks, some of who would be temped to steal it.)
Thankfully, the Lord took her before she was discharged, which would have been fairly soon. When WE get old, we're screwed.
Medicare should not be charity medicine (except if you’re SSI). Rather, you should be able to supplement the amount Medicare provides with your own money and buy a “richer” health insurance plan. There should be a difference between benefits you have a right to by reason of paying taxes when you’re are or were working age and able-bodied, from the benefits you receive by reason of the generosity of the taxpayers of this country.
Medicine is getting to be more and more like treating a bunch of cattle - in other words, just like animals.
It’s not the individual that counts and treating a person “uniquely” - but it’s that “system” that counts and is more important - and the “animals” simply have to fit into the system.