Posted on 08/12/2021 3:33:39 AM PDT by Kaslin
As a retiree from high school teaching in NYC, we have Medicare (80%) and supplemental insurance (20%). Effective Jan. 1, our insurance will be NYC Medicare Advantage Plus Plan and will be administered by Emblem Health and by Blue Shield, not by the troika of Medicare, Emblem Health, and Blue Shield as is presently the case. All medical bills will go to the new plan. The plan in turn will pay the doctors and hospital. There is a $253 deductible for each person and a $300 deductible for hospital admission. My experience is that we are already moving toward Medicare for All even though legislation has not yet been passed authorizing it. One need only look at the handwriting on the wall.
This system is a blending of the private and the public (Medicare will still pick up its share of the cost) under a single umbrella and is staging Medicare for All. You see, the senior citizen retirees paid into Medicare during the course of regular employment, and we continue to pay for Part B Hospitalization (although those payments are reimbursed once a year by NYC). The private insurance that supplements Medicare is publicly funded under the union contract with the city for the teachers. So the retirees have paid into the government Medicare fund, and the citizens of NYC through taxes have paid into the city and thus pay the 20% not covered by Medicare. Thus, Medicare, now conceived as a Medicare advantage plan, has shifted into being phase one of a type of "Medicare For All." The renaming as a Medicare advantage plan (with the word "plus") is part of the re-conceptualizing. The insurance company manages the billing to create the illusion that it is a non-governmental program, but actually the cash flow is entirely governmental,
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NYC is not America but a Euro style city state existing beyond the American government
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Abrupt treatment and poor explanation of medical procedures to patients is deeply entrenched in modern medicine. A doctor who had a major surgery even wrote a book about it, lambasting his own profession for its poor attitudes toward patients. It is a hard stretch though to see the problem as evidence that we are moving toward socialized medicine.
thanx ... next time.
Not to mention those "breakthrough" cases and "rare" fatal reactions to the vaccination.
This from a retired high school teacher, Medicare advantage plans have been around for a long time over 20 years, I have worked for several. Sounds like he is batching about the deductible and out of
F pocket $$$.
Also I am on a Medicare advantage health plan and love it. Got to keep dr of 20 yrs. No co-pays on my 90 day supply of blood pressure meds.
a retired NYS teacher should maybe hide the fact.....its insulting to so many who get no insurance help at retirement, let alone age 65.
That was the plan, when Teddy kennedy pushed for HMO’s. the whole concept of going to a physician and paying 25-40 dollars for the visit ENDED. Even house call ENDED.
Recently took a child to the E R that had a head injury, waited over 4 hours and figured they didn’t feel it was serious (or their triage is CRAP) left and went home and monitored the child and took care of the laceration myself. I am now buying up survivalist medicine books as well as prepper items to take of things myself. AND now that the $enate has voted to make all OTC meds and supplements by PRESCRIPTION ONLY, things will get progressively WORSE. STOCK UP and EDUCATE yourselves on whats coming.
Is a nurse practitioner cheaper than a supervising physician?
What is the name of the book?
What is that about OTC meds?
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