Medicare is usually the senior citizen health care.
She is only 40?
Something doesn’t smell right here.
I’d guess she’s on disability...which I believe makes you eligible for medicare at any age...
She’s probably on Social Security Disability. They are entitled to Medicare 2 yrs after they are awarded disability, regardless of age.
IIRC If you get disabilty you qualify for Medicare.
Medicare covers the elderly and the disabled. My husband has had Medicare since he was 31. He was diagnosed with stage IV stomach cancer in 1990. Let me tell you, the rules and the hoops are tremendous. We know that each time medicare does a review, it can limit or stop any and all of my Husband’s medicines... sad but true.
Rationing is a dirty word, but it is and will continue to happen.
Disability-SSI. She is disabled from her cancer and eligible for Medicare.
Wonder if Zeke Emanuel helped with the rationing decision.
RE: “Medicare is usually the senior citizen health care.
She is only 40?
Something doesn’t smell right here”
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She probably fell into some category that allowed her to get Medicare early. I knew a guy with a bad kidney condition needing dialysis 4 days a week. He could not hold down a job because he was always at dialysis and then felt horrible for 6 hours afterward. But.... finally got a transplant and is STILL on Medicare! So there are tons of loopholes to getting on Medicare.
You can get limited Medicare if you are catagorized as disabled.
Your right and I just wrote the same thing...she could have been on medicaid, which is health care for those on welfare...The earliest you can get on medicare is at 59 1/2 if you are a widow...but you take a big % cut in what you will receive....the cut is 30%...otherwise its 62 with a 30% cut. 65 gives you full benefits without a discount..