My 2 cents add to it: Don’t just sit an gripe, offer solutions.
Medicare is a FORCED taxation, along with that you get to pay a premium every month once you are of age to go on it for RATIONED HEALTH CARE.
Not all jobs came/come with pensions or 401K’s. So Medicare all some have to rely on for health care.
No one mentions the 40+ years of palm greasing to donors driving up the cost of Medicare, nor the $60 Billion in FRAUD and waste. Nor the RED tape both the medical professionals and the patient must jump through to be treated.
1) Why are we renting long term use equipment instead of purchasing it out right? This is a palm greaser :-)
2) Why are doctors who are unrelated to your case, or called in by your doctor being allowed into a patients room, say Hi, might or might not listen to your chest...bills Medicare. A simple form signed by the patient approving which doctors are allowed in, and tacked to the door can cut this one. Not on the approved list, you don’t get paid. A code Blue would be an exception. (this is a fraud/scam)
3)Medicare already dictates how many days for any given illness you get to stay in the hospital, you may not be ready to be released medical wise. So you end up back in the ER and back in the hospital.
4) This is more a FDA problem, the need to piggy back drugs. You take a drug to treat Arthur, then you need a pill to treat the GI problems the Arthur drug created, then you need another pill to fix the problem the reflux pill causes...pretty soon you are taking 10+ drugs. And some of these drugs can and do put you in the hospital because of the side effects. and having to take multiple drugs to treat 1 condition is not cost effective and they require more blood testing work, and more visits to the doctor.
5) NOT all generics are equal to the name brand, and come with some nasty side effects the brand name doesn’t have. Which also require extra blood work, extra doctor visits And you have to jump through Espress Scripts layers of red tape to get the name brand approved.
6) NOT all drugs will go generic. Would you want to take insulin that has gotten to warm in your mailbox waiting for you to pick it up? As the gov’t wants you to mail order your drugs instead of going to the local drug store.
7) Why is the FDA allowed to approve a drug that has a 50% failure rate due to horrendous side effects?>/b> That could land you in the hospital.
8) Try the older drugs first as they have track records versus the newer drugs and are cheaper.
9) Cut the red tape. 1 visit to the doc is 30 mins of Medicare paper work for his/her ins. person.
10)Kick the illegals off Medicare. This is fraud
It all drives up the cost to Medicare, and to younger workers health insurance/medical cost.
Great post!
I started reading through Ryan’s plan, but have not yet had time to complete. What little I read set off majore warning bells.